Law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) stormed the doorstep of the attorney-general of the federation, protesting what they called the continued exclusion of over 4,000 qualified graduates from the Nigerian Law School since 2020.
The demonstrators, operating under the platform ‘Backlog of NOUN Law Graduates’, gathered at the AGF’s office in Abuja to press the federal government for urgent intervention, describing the situation as a prolonged injustice against otherwise qualified law graduates.
The action followed a similar protest at the National Assembly earlier, signaling an escalation in the group’s campaign for admission into the mandatory professional law programme.
Thousands left in limbo, association says
Adefowora Adedeji, the group’s national president, disclosed that the National Universities Commission (NUC) had accredited NOUN’s law programme and that earlier cohorts of graduates were successfully admitted into the Nigerian Law School under a special arrangement.
He said that arrangement, however,
