What you want from Law School determines the price you’re willing to pay for it — Daniella Okangba, Babcock University’s best Law graduating student

Daniella Chisom Okangba, Babcock University First-Class Law graduate, author, and mentor, has stated that what one wants from law school determines the price they are willing to pay for it.

Okangba recently stated this through one of her episodic inspirational writings on her LinkedIn page.

Okangba, the third best-graduating student of the Nigerian Law School of set 2023/2024, revealed that before she stepped foot into the Lagos campus of the law school, she heard all kinds of scary stories regarding the school and it activities, such as the overwhelming days, the legendary stress, the power outages, the endless group meetings, the tears, and the triumphs.

“I asked questions, then I started regretting the answers, because law school is not what you explain − it is what you experience,” she said

She said that some of the things she heard about law school, like “law school is hard, are true, adding, “But most of it was what we framed with our words. We spoke it and we started living it.”

She stressed that one thing that law school teaches is this: “Your words shape your world.”

Okangba noted that for one to succeed in law school “Your journey must fit your design” and “You must believe, visualise, and speak” that success.

She revealed that at the Nigerian Law School, there is a silent pressure to blend in, to read when everyone else reads, to adopt someone else’s winning strategy, to mirror the method of the person you think is doing better than you.

“What Law School made crystal clear to me was that success does not come from copying someone else’s intensity. It comes from discovering and honouring what works for you, “she stated.

She advised law students to follow their unique path, which, when honoured with discipline and vision, will still lead to success.

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She revealed that, in her book ‘The Law of Good Success’, she counselled that true growth begins when you know who you are, how you are, what works for you, stressing that that is how you maximise your strengths, manage your weaknesses, and turn your weaknesses into strengths.

“Once I answered these questions honestly, I built my entire routine around them. Run every strategy through the filter of self-awareness,” she added.