Shortly after breakfast tomorrow (May 22), another colourful feather will be added to the already well adorned cap of the Elder Statesman, Farmer and Educationist, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, when Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo will present him with its Distinguished Fellowship Award for his remarkable works as an educationist and as part of the activities marking the College’s Golden Jubilee. The College has rolled out the drums since Monday...Read More

Reminiscences  |  Ayoola recalls Babalola’s early days at the Bar. That the Founder and President Emeritus of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, is rugged, dogged, determined, industrious, courageous and hard working with an uncanny knack for excellence is probably no more news. What may be new is the fact that he did not cultivate these habits yesterday or early this morning: they have all been part and...Read More

About mid-day next Thursday (May 1, 20140), yet another colourful feather  will be added to the already well adorned cap of Awards and Honours of Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, the Founder and President Emeritus of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD). The new Award is the Africa Man of the year Award 2014 in Food Security by The Forum for International Green Sustainability (FIGS). The Award which has been copiously hyped...Read More

Penultimate Friday witnessed some reciprocation of commendation between the Founder and President Emeritus of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, and the visiting Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Prof. Sunny Iyuke. Whilst Iyuke commended Babalola for his demonstrable selflessness and avowed determination to rework the perimeter and parameter of quality, functional and reformatory education in Nigeria, Babalola in...Read More

Despite the challenges facing public universities, many candidates still prefer them to the privately owned ones, NIYI ODEBODE and CHARLES ABAH report Only 18,667 of the over 1.6 million candidates who applied for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are seeking admission to the nation’s private universities, The PUNCH findings have shown. This shows that over 98 per cent of candidates prefer the public universities to the private ones. There...Read More