The Nigerian Law School has announced that applications for admission into the Bar Part II Course for the 2025/2026 academic session will open on Monday, 11 September 2025.

In a statement signed by the Secretary to the Council and Director of Administration, Ms. Aderonke Osho, and posted on Council of Legal Education X account on Tuesday, the school said the application window will close on Friday, October 31, 2025

The session will commence simultaneously at the Nigerian Law School Headquarters in Abuja and at its campuses in Lagos, Enugu, Kano, Yenagoa, Yola and Port Harcourt on Monday, 2 February 2026.

According to the statement, only ?Nigerian graduates of law from Nigerian universities and foreign-trained law graduates who completed and passed the Bar Course at the Nigerian Law School? are eligible for the programme.

?Intending applicants should go to the Nigerian Law School website www.nigerianlawschooledu.ng for instructions on the procedure for application.?

The school warned that only candidates whose data have been forwarded to the Nigerian Law School by the registrars of their universities are eligible to apply.

It advised applicants to confirm this with their universities before paying the non-refundable application fee.

Completed application forms, together with references, must be downloaded, filled and returned to the Nigerian Law School via the applicant?s Dean of Law by Friday, 31 October 2025.

Approved re-admission and cleared referred admission cases should check the portal under the ?re-admission? section, attach their approval or clearance letters to the application form, and forward documents to the Secretary to the Council and Director of Administration at the School?s Headquarters by the same closing date.

The statement emphasised that late submissions will not be entertained and that applicants should keep their application numbers, which will be required to check admission status. (The PUNCH)