A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the best President Nigeria ever had. Babalola said the Obasanjo, who had a rare opportunity to lead the nation three times, first as Military Head of State in the late 70s and twice elected president from 1999 to 2007, was...Read More
Watch Out for the Second Phase of AB FOUNDATION Poverty Alleviation Programme – Read Synopsis of Last Year’s Edition. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), on Tuesday shared N16.5m to 1,000 poor people in Ekiti State. The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, said he did this as a token of...Read More
Prominent lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola, has called on the Federal Government to consider private universities in the disbursement of the Education Trust Fund, arguing that many private universities were registered as non-profit making ventures. Babalola, while delivering the keynote address at a retreat organised by the management of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, described private ownership...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
Nigeria’s Legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola has continued to confound the expectations of all and sundry as he commissions an ultra-modern multi-billion naira Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti Teaching Hospital. Founder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado- Ekiti, remains one of the few Nigerians that domiciled all his investments in his home town and his...Read More
INTER-STATE TRANSPORTATION IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS (3) “If the private sector is encouraged to participate, the Government would be able to direct its much needed funds to very critical areas of the economy most deserving of attention. I successfully adopted BOT at the University of Lagos; I do not see why it cannot be adopted on...Read More
Some Nigerians have described the magnificent high-tech multi-system hospital just completed by Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), as a permanent solution to outward medical tourism. The N50b health facility, the first of its kind in sub-Sahara Africa, according to experts will be commissioned by the Presidency and officials of the Federal Ministry of Health...Read More
INTER-STATE TRANSPORTATION IN NIGERIA; PROBLEMS (2) “In its most basic form, a BOT project is one in which a Government or governmental agency grants a concession for a period of time to a private company for the development of a project. At the end of the concession period, the rights of the project company in...Read More
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