MASS FAILURE RECORDED IN THE NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL

   The Nigerian Law School recorded its highest failure rate since its 50 years of existence in the recently released 2013/2014 August bar examination. Out of the 5000 candidates who sat for the examination,only about 2000 candidates passed. One of the major reasons that has been given for the abysmally poor performance was the new Director-General of Law School's decision to review the pass mark of the exam from 40% to 50%; a decision informed by his unwavering determination to improve on the standard of the Nigerian Law School,and stem the production of half-baked lawyers in Nigeria.
   Many of the affected students have called for a review of the results. According to one student,'' people worked so hard for the exams,these same people have invested their life savings for the exam, and the DG who is responsible for this mass failure doesn't see reasons with these people. He said he is raising the standards but what we see is a high standard of failure.'' Another aggrieved student contributed that: ''Do we say 3000 students paid 300,000 naira school fees ,then prepared to fail?''