About mid-day next Thursday (May 1, 20140), yet another colourful feather  will be added to the already well adorned cap of Awards and Honours of Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, the Founder and President Emeritus of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD). The new Award is the Africa Man of the year Award 2014 in Food Security...Read More

Penultimate Friday witnessed some reciprocation of commendation between the Founder and President Emeritus of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, and the visiting Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Prof. Sunny Iyuke. Whilst Iyuke commended Babalola for his demonstrable selflessness and avowed determination to...Read More

Despite the challenges facing public universities, many candidates still prefer them to the privately owned ones, NIYI ODEBODE and CHARLES ABAH report Only 18,667 of the over 1.6 million candidates who applied for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are seeking admission to the nation’s private universities, The PUNCH findings have shown. This shows that...Read More

  One can say with any fear of contradiction that with the all-round education which includes academic and professional education, Leadership and Entrepreneurial training being dished out by Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), it will be next to an unpardonable crime for any of its graduates to still go about with the mind set of...Read More

Ekiti State Ministry of Health has approached Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), to partner with it on the new 300-bed Oba Adejugbe Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, which is programmed to open to the public latest by the of May 2014. Besides, the State Government is angling for the consolidation of the relationship between the university and the...Read More

Elder Statesman and Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has canvassed for the abrogation of the unhealthy and unnecessary dichotomy between universities and Polytechnics and their products in Nigeria. Instead, he recommended that upgrade all Polytechnics of Technology just like the government of Mr. John Major did in England when...Read More

The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has thumbed his chest that he is succeeding in his dream of making things better the has met them in this country, particularly in the realm of education. Babalola who spoke when the Managing Director of Julius Berger Nigeria   Plc, Mr. Heinz Stockhausen,...Read More

The Executives of Alumin Association of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), last week visited their Alma Mata. Below is bit-by-bit itinerary of the former students who are currently flying the banner of ABUAD at  various locations where they are currently engaged in the mandatory one-year National Service. Thursday, March 20, 2014. The Alumni Executives, Miss...Read More

There is no doubt that at some point in the recent past, Federal Universities in the country were once a place of acquisition of sophisticated intellectual edification. This was possible then because of many social, political and economic factors which are not necessarily taken into consideration in this essay. It cannot also not be disputed...Read More

Come Sunday, April 27, 2014, the NUC accreditation team will berth once again at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), this time for the accreditation of the University’s Intelligence and Security Studies Programme. A March 24, 2014 letter signed by NUC’s Director, Quality Assurance, Prof. C.F. Mafiana, said: “I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of...Read More