Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD CLUB FOR RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA WELCOMES OBASANJO: SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE BEFORE 2023 ELECTIONS (2) LAST week’s discussion centered on an examination of the need to revisit the institutional and socio-political structure of Nigeria and embrace a new structural reform which will decentralize power to the regional units. Equally, I...Read More

Good afternoon Most distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, please permit me to adopt the already established protocol. I am delighted to welcome you all to this all-significant conference organized by the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD) Nigeria.  On behalf of our Founder, Chancellor, President of our Institution, Ambassador Aare Bamofin...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD THE GEORGE FLOYD KILLING: DISSIMILARITIES BETWEEN NIGERIAN LAWS AND U.S LAWS (2) LAST week, I discussed the incidence of the George Floyd killing and implications of the criminal charges levied against Chauvin and the other 3 police officers who were complicit in his murder. I equally discussed the...Read More

Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde, FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor INTRODUCTION When the ravaging and rampaging Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Nigeria sometimes in February 2020, nobody, no institution, not even the World Health Organization (WHO), knew how far-reaching the devastating and debilitating effects of the invisible killer, which has claimed many lives and grounded the...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD NIGERIA’S INCREASING DEBT WORRISOME: USE RECOVERED LOOT AS ALTERNATIVE The origin of Nigeria’s external debt dates back to 1958 when a loan of US$28 million was obtained from the World Bank. The funds, which was made available to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was for a five-year tenor to...Read More

Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor, MESSAGE TO OUR DEAR ABUAD PARENTS/GUARDIANS/SPONSORS & STUDENTS Introduction: We are all too familiar with the deep concern and frustration the continued closure of  educational institutions in the country since Monday, March 23, 2020 has visited on all stakeholders in nation’s Education sub-sector, including students, Faculty,...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD In the preceding editions, much of the focus has been on the medical response to the novel coronavirus disease, both in Nigeria and the world at large. It is, however, pertinent to consider the dire socio-economic consequences of Nigeria’s unpreparedness for this pandemic, with specific reference to Nigeria’s...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD PANDEMICS IN HISTORY : Was Nigeria Prepared for Covid-19? (2) LAST WEEK, I commenced a discussion on the novel Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) which has dealt a huge blow on the world’s socio-economic structure. I detailed the chronology of pandemics which have, in times past, shaped human existence,...Read More

Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb., FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor Exploring ancestral wisdom to combat Covid-19 It is no longer news that the ravaging Covid-19 has changed the educational, political, and economic as well as the medical equations of the world. What will be the heart-warming news is that someone or some institutions have at last...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD PANDEMICS IN HISTORY: Was Nigeria Prepared for Covid-19? (1) It is no longer news that SARS-CoV-2, renamed Covid-19 by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020, has taken the world by storm, transcending borders and geographical landscapes, defying orthodox treatments and holding several economies, first-world and third-world...Read More