Some of the law students also called on the Governor of Borno State to pay school fees of indigenes of his state in the school for the 2014-2015 sessions to enable them settle their financial liabilities. Dr. Abdullahi Madugu, national publicity secretary of the law school student congress, argued that students were unfairly assessed because the school relied heavily on classroom performance to pass students and failed to take into account their performance in the three-month chamber attachment, which was key to the vocational training the school was established to provide. He has further urged the federal government to scrap the Nigerian Law School and merge same with university law faculties as well as reduce the law school fees from N295,250 to N50,000. Madugu said the Council of Legal Education (CLE) and the Director General of the law school in Bwari should list those who failed and call them to the bar in a special ceremony so they can be of help to the less privileged masses who can’t afford lawyers to defend them. About 20,000 students failed the bar exams from 2013 to date, a very high figure which Madugu said was wrong because the school should not fail law students in vocational training. The student congress also faulted some law school management staff, of Bwari, for alleged attempt to intimidate and humiliate their national president, Comrade Hamman Julde, and warned that anyone found insulting any of their executives will be brought to book. When contacted on phone yesterday, NLS spokesman Chinedu said fees were hiked since 2010. He added that the performance of students has improved and that over 75 per cent of them passed during the last bar exams. He, however said that there was no way some students will not fail.]]>