Amasa Firdaus, the Nigeria Law School graduate who was refused her call to bar for failing to remove her hijab, has said that her defiance was to challenge the status quo and her demand remains the need to grant approval for the use of hijab among Muslim law graduates. In an interview with Premium Times, Firdaus, a UNIILORIN law graduate maintained...
By now, most people have probably heard about the story of the Nigerian law school graduate who was denied her call to bar because she wore hijab. Here is the true story. A law school graduate identified as Amasa Firdaus wasn’t called to the Nigerian bar on the 12th of December 2017 because she was wearing an muslim apparel for women...