The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi has promised to uphold fairness, justice, and the rule of law. While calling on three tiers of government to contribute their quotas towards the development of the country, the minister said no nation can grow without justice. The Minister who stated this...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD King’s has received £10million from Nigerian Philanthropist and Lawyer, Aare Afe Babalola, to establish the Afe Babalola African Centre for Transnational Education. The new Centre will enable young Africans to access education and opportunities which they would otherwise not be able to have. The vision for the Centre...Read More

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: NEED TO MOVE FROM EXCLUSIVE TO CONCURRENT LEGISLATIVE LIST (1) “Issue of wages should be moved from exclusive legislative list to concurrent list” As Nigerians mark the beginning of a new year, it is certain that the controversy surrounding the adoption and implementation of a new minimum wage of N30,000 (Thirty thousand...Read More

REPOSITIONING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2) In the period after independence, positive action was taken by the government and most of the recommendations of the Unsworth Committee were implemented through the Legal Education Act of 1963 and the Legal Practitioners Act of 1962. The Nigerian Law School was set up in 1962. It ran...Read More

REPOSITIONING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2) In the period after independence, positive action was taken by the government and most of the recommendations of the Unsworth Committee were implemented through the Legal Education Act of 1963 and the Legal Practitioners Act of 1962. The Nigerian Law School was set up in 1962. It ran...Read More

REPOSITIONING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (1) The Legal profession in Nigeria derives its origin from the English Legal System and Legal profession. It dates back only to the latter half of the 19th century.  This is as a result of our historical links with Great Britain. In 1861, Lagos became a British colony and...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

 INDISCIPLINE IN NIGERIA’S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (3) “Good academic qualifications without good foundation of self-discipline, the individual is useless to him/herself, family and the society”. Over the past two weeks I have examined the growing issue of indiscipline in Nigerian educational sector. I have stated how there is a growing menace of substance abuse amongst Nigerian...Read More

INDISCIPLINE IN NIGERIA’S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS “Such is the upsurge in moral decadence that educational institutions are fast failing in their duty to churn our model citizens and may in reality end up being breeding grounds for a whole new generation of Nigerians lacking in moral probity“. In recent times two seemingly unrelated events have attracted...Read More

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: SERVICE ABOVE SELF AN IDEOLOGY WORTHY OF EMULATION (4) “Based on these facts, it would be impossible for Nigerian Universities to compete favourably with any of the top universities in the world let alone drive innovation and maintain qualitative levels of delivery without donations, endowments or gifts from sources other than government”. Last week...Read More