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Nigeria Churns Out New Lawyers: What Provision Has The Government Made To Accommodate Them?

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 ...