Studying for my bar finals wasn’t easy. I knew I had to stay awake and read overnight, but my body wasn’t cooperating. It was aching and running a temperature. There were times I felt like, ‘Who sent me?’ The materials were so bulky. There were different versions of materials, and so, for my sanity's sake, I stuck to one major one. Well, eventually it was time for the exam. My first exam was on my birthday, Feb 21st. I was so anxious because my first and last exams matter a lot; they set the mood for the exam period and after the exam. My first exam was in corporate law. I was very scared of this exam because one of my senior colleagues, whom I respected, told me to be careful with it, as it affected his results. The first paper was not good at all. The questions weren’t what was generally expected, and when we were done, everyone was anxious and troubled. It didn’t seem to go well at all. I was scared. Will this be the paper that will stop me from having my desired result? Well, I had my other papers, and by the following week, we had finished the bar finals. To be very honest, I prayed more than ever because I was so frightened. We completed the bar finals and went home, and that’s when it all began. I started having terrible dreams that I had failed my bar finals, that something had happened to my results, and that one subject had affected me.
Many fearful thoughts even crossed my mind. What if they don’t find my scripts? What if they don’t see my handwriting, etc.? What if I do very well in other subjects and have an F in one subject? That means I have failed law school. This made me pray more. There were a lot of what-ifs. I battled serious anxiety. After five months, on August 1st, our results were released. I tried to delay checking my results. My heart was skipping unusually, and my heartbeat was loud; I was shaking from head to toe. I opened my portal and immediately screamed and jumped on my dad. I was happy, grateful, and blessed. I HAD A SECOND CLASS UPPER from law school. My joy knew no bounds; I knew it was all God. This journey for me was beyond going to law school. It was for me a journey of trust, faith, and hope in God. So if you are reading this and you are on a particular journey that seems unfavourable, please trust God. Cast it all on him. There were so many things that seemed unfavourable about my law school journey, but God stood by me. On 25th September, I was called to the Nigerian Bar as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Thank you for following my law school journey till now. Please subscribe for more Relationship and life talk is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell Relationship and life talk that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won't be charged unless they enable payments.
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Thursday, 15 January 2026
I AM FINALLY A LAWYER
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