A foremost legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has urged the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, to use his vantage position to rally round other traditional rulers in the country to support restructuring as the only solution to separatist agitation in Nigeria. Babalola, who spoke...Read More

By Breda Graham Plane crash survivor Kechi Okwuchi received a standing ovation for her emotional audition on America’s Got Talent which airs this Tuesday night. Ms Okwuchi wowed both the judges and audience with her rendition of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’. One of two survivors of the Sosoliso plane crash in Nigeria in 2005,...Read More

ADMISSION OF UNDERGRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR 2017/2018 ACADEMIC SESSION WHY ABUAD IS THE FIRST CHOICE FOR CANDIDATES IN SEARCH OF QUALITY AND FUNCTIONAL EDUCATION 1. ABUAD FOUNDED BY ACCOMPLISHED UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR ABUAD is founded by Aare Afe Babalola, OFR, CON, SAN, LL.D (Lond.), LL.D (Lagos), a self-made man; an acclaimed university administrator; the first...Read More

GOVERNMENT OF  JAPAN  (MONBUKAGAKUSHO: MEXT) SCHOLARSHIP FOR 2018 (GRADUATE LEVEL) The National Universities Commission (NUC) has received a notice of offer of scholarship to eligible Nigerian Students who may wish to undertake postgraduate studies in Japanese Universities for the next academic year commencing in April or October, 2018. Prospective applicants must not be above thirty-five...Read More

ADMISSION OF UNDERGRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR 2017/2018 ACADEMIC SESSION WHY ABUAD IS THE FIRST CHOICE FOR CANDIDATES IN SEARCH OF QUALITY AND FUNCTIONAL EDUCATION 1. ABUAD FOUNDED BY ACCOMPLISHED UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR ABUAD is founded by Aare Afe Babalola, OFR, CON, SAN, LL.D (Lond.), LL.D (Lagos), a self-made man; an acclaimed university administrator; the first...Read More

APPOINTMENT OF SAN: LIMITATION OF NUMBER- EFFECT ON MERIT “I am of the view that all persons who merit the rank in any given year should be conferred with it. The sole test, as is now the position in England should be excellence in advocacy. This way there will be no backlog of applicants”. Every...Read More

FUNDING OF UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA:  ATTITUDE OF NIGERIANS TO GIVING “The average Nigerian has come to believe that everything must be free and that government must provide all. Unfortunately, Nigerians were fed, by successive governments with wrong notion of who should fund university education”. The National Assembly a few days ago passed the 2017 Budget...Read More

RECURRING PROBLEMS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: ZERO PARTY AS BASIS FOR ELECTION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL (2) “I suggest that election to local councils should no longer be on political party basis but strictly on zero party. Elections on a zero party system will ensure that candidates will be drawn from the locality in which...Read More

    Registration is open for what has been described as a highly-recommended, must-attend event: Developing the next generation of researchers Exploring innovative approaches to academic mentoring and career development for emerging researchers Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 July 2017 University of Lagos, Nigeria Over the course of three days, delegates will learn about international good...Read More

MEA Imagine Cup Finals! Welcome to the homepage of the Middle East and Africa Imagine Cup Finals – Lebanon 2017. This year, the MEA Finals are being held in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative. Incredible, world-changing software innovations often come from students. Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s...Read More