It is a well known diplomatic exercise the world over for the Ambassadors of a country to occasionally visit home to brief that particular country and to share experiences with the home government. That exactly was the experience of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), when the executives of the university’s Alumni Association, who are currently...Read More

Posted by: Jide Osuntokun On Thursday February 6, I paid an unscheduled visit to Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti. My primary mission was to visit the founder, Chief Afe Babalola, somebody that I have tremendous respect for because of his exemplary life of determination and success. He is a man who built himself up by...Read More

Posted by: Adegunle Olugbamila in Campus Life In what would appear yet another first for the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), the National Instruments (NI) Inc., a Texas, United States firm with a tentacle in South Africa, will soon establish a LabVIEW Academy in ABUAD. On take-off, the academy will be the first and only...Read More

Posted by: Seun Akioye  He is known globally as a lawyer of repute and a philanthropist. Four years ago, he founded a university which, in a short time, has re-defined tertiary education in Nigeria. But few people know about his passion for farming. Seun Akioye went on a tour of Aare Afe Babalola’s farms and...Read More

The immediate past Director General of the Council for Legal Education, Dr. Tahir Mamman, has urged Nigerian University Law Colleges/Faculties angling for accreditation of their Law Programme to first visit the Law College of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), as a pre-condition for getting a date for Accreditation visit by the Council. Already heeding the...Read More

The appointment of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), as the ‘Mentoring tertiary institution and affiliate’ to the new College of Industrial Development (UID), Accra, Ghana, took a more concrete dimension on February 21 when the Proprietor and Founder of UID, Ambassador Shelly Amos, and his team met the Monitoring Team set up by ABUAD. In...Read More

The fever of dress code introduced by the authorities of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), is beginning to fester even beyond the four corners of the university into some Federal and State institutions, with the latest being Osun State College of education, Ila-Orangun. Delivering a speech at the maiden matriculation of students undergoing degree programmes...Read More

As part of its efforts to ensure that its students don’t trot the streets looking for white collar jobs after graduation, the authorities of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has approved a one-day seminar for its final year students in the Colleges of Law, Social & Management Sciences and Sciences in this regard. The seminar...Read More

Ten students of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), participated in the recent 2013/2014 Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) Joint Venture University Scholarship Aptitude Test at the Lagos Centre. The other centres are Abuja, Enugu, Port-Harcourt and Awarri where accreditation started at 10 am before the Aptitude Test commenced an hour later at 11 am on...Read More

The Ag. Vice Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), Prof. Michael Ajisafe, has advised the students of Afe Babalola International Study Centre (ABISC), Ibadan to always be of good character and tow a path of rectitude and decorous behavior to ensure a bright future for themselves. Ajisafe who visited the institution with some top...Read More