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...
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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...
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The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has thumbed his chest that he is succeeding in his dream of making things better the has met them in this country, particularly in the realm of education. Babalola who spoke when the Managing Director of Julius Berger Nigeria   Plc, Mr. Heinz Stockhausen, visited the University last week said he and the Management Team of the University have...
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  One can say with any fear of contradiction that with the all-round education which includes academic and professional education, Leadership and Entrepreneurial training being dished out by Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), it will be next to an unpardonable crime for any of its graduates to still go about with the mind set of pounding the streets to shop for white collar jobs after graduation. It is a known...
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Ekiti State Ministry of Health has approached Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), to partner with it on the new 300-bed Oba Adejugbe Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, which is programmed to open to the public latest by the of May 2014. Besides, the State Government is angling for the consolidation of the relationship between the university and the state government in the use of the state’s Public Health facilities through the design and...
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