[2] Until the school was established, legal practitioners in Nigeria had received the requisite training in England and had been called to the English Bar.
Over 70,000 students have graduated from the Nigerian Law School since its inception in 1962.
[6] In August 2009, a legal practitioner Asbayir Abubakar called for reductions in the fees paid at the Nigerian Law School in order to accommodate the less privileged into the legal profession.
He said the Council of Legal Education will refer law Professors and teachers managing illegal law faculties to the disciplinary committee of the Body of Benchers.
This is why Prof Tahir Mamman SAN is referred to as the most successful Director General since the inception of the institution.