The Nigerian Law School has cancelled the Call to Bar ceremony in the school headquarters in Bwari over terrorists threats.
A statement from the Director General of the school, Prof Hayatu Isa Ciroma, said the annual event has been shifted to the Secretariat of the Body of Benchers located at Airport Road Abuja.
In a statement posted on his verified Twitter handle, the Professor Ciroma said, “The Director-General has directed to notify candidates of the change of the Call to the Bar venue from the Nigerian Law School Bwari to the Body of Benchers Secretariat along the Airport Road, Abuja by 1pm tomorrow 27th July, 2022.”
The school advised friends and family members of candidates to stay away from the venue as only the candidates would be cleared to enter.
On August last year, the Body of Benchers called to the bar a total of 4,350 new lawyers.
The Body of Benchers secretariat is located behind the EFCC headquarters in Idu Industrial layout Abuja.
This development is coming after the murder of at least two army officers and six soldiers by terrorists during an ambush near the Nigerian Law School in Bwari Abuja hours after they threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Nasir El-Rufai and other top government officials.
The slain soldiers were members of the Presidential Guards Brigade, an elite brigade of the Nigerian Army responsible for protecting the President of Nigeria and securing the capital city.
The soldiers were reportedly ambushed after they visited the law school following a distressed call from the authorities of the law school.
Earlier on Monday, the Federal Ministry of Education had shut down Federal Government College Kwali Abuja over security breach near the school.
The college was shut following security breach on Sheda and Lambata Villages, suburbs of Kwali Area Council which also threatened FGC Kwali. The minister said the timely intervention of security agencies saved the situation.
Hours later, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) hurriedly directed the shut down of all private and public schools in Abuja.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE reports that on July 5, Boko Haram fighters believed to be Kaduna train attackers, stormed Kuje Prison in Abuja, freeing 879 inmates, including 69 terrorists in its custody.
The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) said 443 of the fleeing inmates have been recaptured, 551 were still at large; while four inmates and one Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) official were killed.
