Every year the Nigerian Government through the Council of Legal Education churns out new Lawyers. The big question is, what provisions has the Government made to accommodate this teeming population of Lawyers? In Nigeria, every year Lawyers after successful graduation from the Law School, passing out from the compulsory National S ervice to the fatherland (for those whose age does not exceed 30 years), join the rest of Nigerian graduates in the labour market hungrily seeking for jobs. The devastating thing about the legal profession is that these new young firebrand Lawyers hop from Law Firm to another seeking for job. What then is noble or special about a profession that makes one suffer the same fate as those in other profession? When even during the National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C), most Law Firms (their Place of Primary Assignment; PPA) gave us stipends as allowance. This allowance is nothing to be compared to Corps Medical Doctors who receive huge allowances in ...
The Nigerian Council Of Legal Education, the body responsible for the training of Lawyers through the Nigerian Law School to qualify them to practice as both Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, is today giving birth to new set of lawyers. Spending five (5) years at the University (if you had no extra year) passing through some irksome Lecturers who never wanted you to graduate; got, saved or borrowed money to go to law school, got certified by the Body of Benchers as a fit and proper person, sat for the Bar Finals, and God helped you to be among the less than half who passed the Bar Finals, and today you join the honourable Nigerian Bar. It wasn't easy but God did it for you and am so happy to have you join us here. I welcome all new wigs to Bar BUT the journey starts NOW!