The Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has been described as an unusual Nigerian, who having grown up under the pernicious pangs of colonialism refused to be affected by the deceit that was the hallmark of colonialism. Speaking over the weekend during the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council (NMDC) Accreditation Visitation Panel’s visit to the four-year old university for the accreditation of its...Read More

Obasanjo, UNESCO Chieftain and others bag Honourary Degrees. The Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, is a man who means different things to different people, be it in Law, education, agriculture, arbitration, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, hard work, determination, writing and publication of law books as well as turning hopeless impossibilities into enviable possibilities among many of his other pastimes. His primary constituency is humanity....Read More

A presidential stamp was put on the series of activities marking ABUAD’s maiden convocation when President Goodluck Jonathan landed on ABUAD’s campus at 11.15 a.m in an Air Force Helicopter on October 19 and received by a tumultuous and enthusiastic crowd to commission the university’s gargantuan Engineering Building named after him. The Engineering Building built on three and half acres of land and equipped with sophisticated state-of-the-art equipment from Europe...Read More

Dr. Lalla Aicha Ben Barka, the Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, who gave the convocation lecture, added the international flavor to the flurry of activities surrounding ABUAD’s 1st Convocation with torrents of accolades on the four-year old model modern university. In her lecture titled “Tertiary Education and Developlent in Africa by and post 2015”, Ben Barka commended the significant economic progress Nigeria has made over the last 50 years, a development...Read More

The Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has said that the Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN deserves a Nobel Prize for his pioneering works at reformatory and quality education in Nigeria. Okorocha, who was visiting the four-year old University for the first time  said it was amazing and almost incredible that a private University could  put in place such massive infrastructure,...Read More