Says Legal Education needs urgent rejigging

Immediate Past Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)National Asst. Secretary, Ewenode.O William, said there is no doubt that legal education in Nigeria urgently require rejigging.

Ewenode, made this remark on Monday, following the just concluded Legal Education summit organized by the Nigerian Bar Association in corroboration with Aare Afe Babalola, CON, OFR, SAN, and hosted at Afe Babalola University, where stakeholders called for review of the existing law which set up the Council of Legal Education as well as other bodies relevant to legal education in the country.

Ewenode, who said the output from the legal education today shows a total failure in standards noted that the just concluded Legal Education Summit was timely.

“No one contest the fact that Afe Babalola University is one of the few Universities that places so much premium in arresting the rots in our educational system.

“It will be recalled that the focus of the NBA collaboration with the Afe Babalola University was the Reimagining Legal Education in Nigeria.

“I am without doubt that the lessons learnt from the Summit will be put to judicious use by the concern authorities.”