UNICAL Asks 214 Law Students to Return to Their Original Departments and Retains 221.
The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has directed 214 students in the LLB 2 class to return to the departments through which they were originally admitted after spending over two academic sessions in the Faculty of Law.
The decision was announced during a meeting between the University Management, the Faculty of Law Management, LL.B II students, and the students’ leadership.
According to the university, only 221 out of the 435 students currently in the LL.B II class are officially recognised as Law students.
The affected students include those:
- Whose JAMB regularisation has not been approved.
- Who were offered admission only on the UNICAL portal but not on the JAMB Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
- Who transferred into the Faculty of Law without the required approval.
The University Management explained that the affected students will not be eligible for the Nigerian Law School under their current admission status and must return to their original departments.
To facilitate the process, the university has temporarily locked the portals of the affected students.
As part of measures to cushion the impact, the management announced that affected students will either receive a full refund of their 2025/2026 school fees or have their 2026/2027 school fees paid by the university upon returning to their original departments.
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This is absolutely nonsense and this act you people are displaying is because no one has keep up to it
But I swear with my life this one will never pass by
My brother is a victim
My dad sold out his only land in ABA just for my brother to reach this 200level law and seeing this is a breakdown in my family and is not right please find a way if is for them to go back to year 1 law or sign there transfer papers to go to another school
The VC should consider all this is not right
People still dey sell land send person go school? To study law in Nigeria? Thank the VC for doing your family a favour. If them sell land for am to enter 200 level everybody for don sell kidney before e reach law school.
This ur comment is very brutal, I guess the current hardship in Nigeria currently didn’t reach ur side. I pray it doesn’t reach ur side anyway. Some parents are going through a lot in other to pay their children’s school fee. The fact that maybe who knows ur parents were able to afford to pay ur tuition fee doesn’t mean it is same with other. To study law on a norms is very expensive talk more of during this hardship in the country currently that has been affecting both the Rich & the Poor.
You are a very big fo*l
Na why nothing good dey come out from your generation
This doesn’t really make sense, why did the school offer them admission in the first place and allow them go through year on and two before bringing this up? The school should have tackle this issue at the point of entry. They should be better ways to handle this than transferring them to other departments. This is exposing how poor our educational system is. A school like unical washing its dirty linen outside to the whole world. It’s a shame