Nigeria: Encourage, Don't Discourage

The journey begins from a five or six year undergraduate course; then one grueling year at the Nigerian Law School, where it would be determined whether one is fit and proper to be called to the Nigerian Bar; then you become a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and finally the realities of practice set in; not to forget the mandatory national youth service year and, after all these, majority of young lawyers don't have an encouraging statement of account (same old song)!

The medical doctor on the other hand who scales through a similar difficult educational hurdle in terms of time, resources and reading, just like the Law course starts smiling to the bank even during

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