FANTASTIC: UNILORIN, UNILAG record highest pass rates in bar exam

The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has emerged the university with the best performance in the Bar Final Examination of the Nigerian Law School held in August.

The result of the examination released by the Council for Legal Education last week showed 94.9 per cent of UNILORIN Law graduates passed the examination – narrowly beating the University of Lagos to second position with 93.9 percent pass rate.

In all, 29 students made first class in the examination according to a university-by-university performance analysis of the examination published in the current edition of The Nigeria Lawyer journal.

Some 211 had Second Class Upper grade,1,046 made Second Class Lower grade, 3,000 got the Pass grade, 333 had conditional pass, 1,272 failed while 33 were absent.

Though UNILORIN had the best cumulative results for the candidates, UNILAG had the highest number of students with First Class grades (six compared to UNILORIN’s one).

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNILAG), with four students, followed UNILAG with the second highest number of First Class grades.

The Osun State University (UNIOSUN), which recorded the third best cumulative pass rate of 91.8 per cent, also had two students with the First Class grade.

In his reaction to the feat, the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Dr. K. I. Adam, described it as “the fruit of great academic excellence for which our University is widely reputed”.