By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN A recession has many attributes that can occur simultaneously and includes declines in component measures of economic activity (GDP) such as consumption, investment, government spending, and net export activity. These summary measures reflect underlying drivers such as employment levels and skills, household savings rates, corporate investment decisions, interest rates, demographics, and government policies. A severe (GDP down by 10%) or prolonged (three or four years)...Read More
By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN “It was always a matter of time before we would realize the dangers of an economy that is largely based on oil revenue. This dependence coupled with the huge cost of running and maintaining our political structure was always a recipe for disaster.” After months of speculation, Nigerians have finally been confronted with the stark reality that the economy is in recession. For many who before...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 my attention. The first occurred on the 27th October 2016 when some secondary school students...Read More
By: Tunde OLOFINTILA When the Immediate Past President of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, Engineer Isaac Olorunfemi, dubbed the Engineering Programme of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD’s) a template for Engineering education in Nigeria in June last year, hardly did he know that he was sowing a seed of prophesy. Shortly after that prophetic utterance, apart from the fact that many universities in Nigeria have been coming to see the...Read More
A 2015 First Class Electrical & Electronics Graduate of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Miss Oghenetejiri Odjighoro, has commended the University for the quality and functional education it offers which has assisted her in securing a job with the Lagos-based Huawei Technologies Limited, a leading multinational Networking and Telecommunications Equipment and Services company. Odjighoro was particularly appreciative of the introduction of Chinese language into the University’s curriculum, a compulsory subject...Read More
