… calls for return of regionalism, parliamentary system Elder statesman and lawyer, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has described the scrapping of the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME, otherwise called post-JAMB) by the Federal Government as a “calamitous mistake.” The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), said he was “more than shocked by the...Read More

Scholarship Fund for Young African Scholars Made possible by the Alumni Fund of Tilburg University School of Law, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa, and family, friends and colleagues of Professor Willem van Genugten.  CALL FOR CANDIDATES – CALL FOR CANDIDATES – CALL FOR CANDIDATES  ILA2016 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE...Read More

ABUAD INN RECRUITS COOKS/CATERERS: Candidates with NCE, OND and HND in Hospitality and Catering & Hotel Management with minimum of two (2) years cognate experience in the hospitality industry. RECEPTIONISTS: Candidates with NCE, OND and HND in Hospitality, Catering & Hotel Management, Tourism Development & Management, Marketing, Business Administration, Sociology and philosophy with a minimum...Read More

  My compatriots, It is one year today since our administration came into office. It has been a year of triumph, consolidation, pains and achievements. By age, instinct and experience, my preference is to look forward, to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead and rededicate the administration to the task of fixing Nigeria. But...Read More

Having inherited a nearly comatose economy, occasioned by dwindling oil resources and rampaging terrorists in the country’s Northeast, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, is faced with an arduous task of putting the largest economy in the continent, back on its feet. With a reputation of zero tolerance for corruption, President Buhari, has continued to attract global...Read More

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to roll back some of America’s most ambitious environmental policies, actions that he said would revive the ailing U.S. oil and coal industries and bolster national security. Among the proposals, Trump said he would pull the United States out of the U.N. global climate accord,...Read More

Donald Trump: 28 things the Republican believes 9 May 2016 From the section Magazine Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican race to be the presidential nominee for next year’s election. What are his policies and beliefs? 1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11. Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September, 2001, there were...Read More

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION “The reality in Nigeria however is that government and private individuals have yet to fully appreciate that private universities deserve financial attention in the form of grants, donations and endowment”. In the past four editions I have been discussing some of the issues raised in the article of Mr....Read More

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola(SAN), has canvassed for return to regional government for Nigeria to recover fully from its economic woes and myriad of challenges confronting it. The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD), said having a central government with a president directing the affairs of a large and multiethnic and...Read More

Nigeria’s Central Bank is adopting a flexible foreign exchange rate regime, Governor Godwin Emefiele said on Tuesday, in a policy U-turn designed to boost exports and stave off a recession in Africa’s biggest economy. The bank has previously kept a de facto peg of around 197 naira per dollar but that has become unsustainable due...Read More