- Two UNIUYO law graduates have been celebrated for their academic feat by the senior special assistant to the president on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang
- Enang hosted the new law graduates along with their parents and friends and urged them to be ready to take on the world and explore its abundant opportunities
- The law graduates expressed their delight for the honour and promised to keep the flag flying
Two First Class graduates from the Nigerian Law School have been honoured in Abuja for their academic feats, Premium Times reports.
NAIJ.com gathered that the law graduates who were honoured on Wednesday, December 13, were in the Class of 2017 in the University of Uyo who received the First Class degrees.
Kuseme Ise and Iyene John repeated the feat during the August 2017 final Nigerian Law School bar exams.
They were among 4,294 law graduates from different universities in and outside Nigeria who were declared qualified by the Council of Legal Education to participate in the Call-to-Bar ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday, December 13 .
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After the formalities, the senior special assistant to the president on National Assembly Matters hosted the law graduates along with their parents and friends in Abuja.
He said he was proud of them for their excellent academic performance.
He said: “When one realises that this is the first time First Class law graduates will be emerging from the Law Department of the University of Uyo, you would appreciate why I and my family are proud to honour you for this unprecedented academic achievement.
“At a time the country is talking about falling standard of education in our higher institutions of learning, you have not only done your parents proud, by justifying their investments and sacrifices for you, but you have done Akwa Ibom State and UNIUYO the rare honour of flying their flags so high.
“You have set a standard worthy of emulation. While I congratulate you for your achievement, I urge you to ensure that you deploy at all times the knowledge you have acquired towards the promotion of equity and justice, for the common good of all in Nigeria in general and Akwa Ibom state in particular."
“The world is open to you. You can afford to be a lecturer and impart knowledge to the next generation, or go into law practice. You can get to the highest of heights by emulating your Vice Chancellor, Professor Aniefiok Essien, who is the dean emeritus, faculty of law; Vice Chancellor and Senior Advocate of Nigeria."
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While thanking Enang for his kind gesture in recognising their achievement, Ise said they would strive to keep the flag flying to justify the high confidence reposed in them.
She thanked her parents and the school authorities for all the support that helped her achieve her academic objectives.
John also expressed delight for the privilege granted him by the University of Uyo and the Nigerian Law School, to realise his life’s ambition to become a lawyer.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that a Nigerian lady identified as Viola-Nuela Echebima emerged as the best student from the Nigerian Law School after she was called to bar on Tuesday, December 13.
Echebima was part of the 4,294 lawyers called to bar who graduated from the Nigerian Law School after the August, 2017 bar examinations.
The lady who has a knack for excelling in her studies also graduated with First Class from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 2016. She also graduated as the best student from the university.
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Source: Naija.ng