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General News of Thursday, 8 July 2021

Source: punchng.com

Law school releases 2021 results, 1,326 fail

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A total of 1,325 persons have failed the bar final examination 2021 the Nigerian Law School released the result on Tuesday.

The statistics by the Council of Legal Education showed that a total of 5,770 persons sit for the examination.

However, there were 1,326 failures which formed 22.98 per cent of the total participants.

Twenty students (0.007%) bagged first class, 432 (7.49%) bagged second class (upper division).

2,172 (37.64%) students bagged second class (lower division) and 1,725 (29.90%) got a pass. In the breakdown of the result, 35 (0.61%) students had a conditional pass, while 60 (1.04%) students were absent.

The result of the examination is a prerequisite for getting called to the Nigerian Bar.

Thus, successful participants will be called to the Nigerian Bar in a call-to-bar ceremony scheduled to hold on July 27 and 28.

The Director of Administration of the Nigerian Law School, Elizabeth Max-Uba, confirmed the release of the result.