AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI (ABUAD) – BEYOND PEOPLE’S DREAM When sometime in October 2008, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, eminent Ekiti son, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Africa role model, legal luminary and internationally acclaimed philanthropist at the official turning of the sod of the first private university in Ekiti State, Afe Babalola University, said that the University would in no distant time, become one of the best universities in the world,...Read More
ADDRESS BY THE FOUNDER, AARE AFE BABALOLA, OFR,CON,SAN,LL.D ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2ND FOUNDER’S DAY DISTINGUISHED PERSONALITY LECTURE HELD ON 21ST JANUARY, 2011 AT AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY Ladies and gentlemen, I am profoundly grateful to all of you for participating in the celebration of 2nd year Founder’s Day of ABUAD. GENERAL DR. YAKUBU GOWON, GCON, Ph.D I pay special tribute to our distinguished lecturer General Dr. Yakubu Gowon, Ph.D,...Read More
A WELCOME ADDRESS ON THE VISITATION OF ICPC TO AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI BY AARE AFE BABALOLA, OFR, CON, SAN, LL.D ON WEDNESDAY, 28TH JULY, 2010. The Distinguished Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), my Oga Honourable Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, CON; The members of ICPC herein present, Members of the 4th Estate of the realm herein present Invited guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. I welcome you most sincerely, for...Read More
SPEECH OF AARE AFE BABALOLA, OFR, CON,SAN AT THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE TURNING OF THE SOD AT THE AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI (1st OCTOBER, 2009) It is one year exactly today when at the instance of His Excellency, Governor Segun Oni, the turning of the sod ceremony was performed. I wish to express my sincere appreciation for his patriotic and sincere interest in this project. But for him,...Read More
SHORT ADDRESS DELIVERED BY CHIEF AFE BABALOLA, OFR, SAN AT THE OFFICIAL TURNING OF THE SOD OF THE AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI ON WEDNESDAY THE 1ST DAY OF OCTOBER, 2008 AT THE SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY PROTOCOL Today, Wednesday the 1st day of October, 2008, history is being made here in Ado-Ekiti. Today, Ekiti State clocks twelve years since its creation in 1996. Today, the first sod of...Read More
