For Rasheedat who got married in 2002 and has three sons, the struggle for the emancipation of Nigeria continues, and is certain of ultimate victory over the forces of darkness, backwardness and barbarism.
The Nigeria Law School on July 29, 2021 called a number of new lawyers to the bar. This is nothing unusual; but what was unique was the call of Rasheedat Adeshina.
The Oba regime had in 1998, banned the students union and then introduced an astronomical increase in school fees. The students with the assistance of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, peacefully protested the increase. It was the hey days of the quite brutal Abacha military regime and Oba had no problem getting the regime’s support to use brutal force.
In 2010, ten years after graduating and without a certificate, she decided to go back to school, this time, the University of Ibadan, UI. She said of her choice of course: “The only course of study that came to my mind then was law. This was not accidental, because I have been in and out of courts and law chambers throughout my stay in the University of Ilorin.”
The university, for the Supreme Court battle, had assembled a formidable team of 10 lawyers led by Yusuf Alli, SAN, which claimed that Rasheedat could not be awarded the institution’s degree because she had outstanding courses she missed, and failed a compulsory one, ICH209. But the university could not produce the list or titles of the courses she allegedly missed nor evidence that she failed any examination or practical course.
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