No fewer than 5,000 law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have petitioned the House of Representatives over their inability to gain admission into the Nigerian Law School.
The affected graduates appeared before the House Committee on Public Petitions on Friday, October 3, 2026, to lodge complaints about the non-mobilisation of their names for the Nigerian Law School programme.
Speaking on behalf of the graduates, Dr. Adeniyi Oladele said they had completed their law degree but were denied mobilisation after their names were allegedly rejected by the authorities.
“Upon graduation from National Open University as a backlog of law graduates of the same school, we approached the university for mobilisation to be given admission into the Nigerian Law School. We were informed that the list containing our names was rejected,” Oladele told the committee.
He argued that previous sets of NOUN law graduates had been mobilised to the Nigerian Law School, completed their training, and were called to the Nigerian Bar, making the current rejection discriminatory.
“We spent a lot of years in pain and confusion, yet no answer to the reason of our rejection was given to us,” he added.
In his response, NOUN representative Professor Shio Usman Ademo confirmed receipt of the petition. “Yes, we received the petition and we have filed our response,” he said.
The House Committee on Public Petitions has now requested the full list of the affected 5,000 graduates to investigate the matter further and resolve the lingering law school mobilisation crisis.
