Prominent Nigerians yesterday converged on Ibadan for the celebration of the 50 years at the Bar of legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), at a lecture and presentation of two books – Current Legal Issues in Contemporary Nigeria and Thoughts of a Legal Icon. The anniversary, held at the Afe Babalola Bar Centre, Iyaganku, was attended by President Goodluck Jonathan (represented by the Solicitor General of the Federation, Abdulahi Yola),...Read More

By: Tunde Olofintila Medical practitioners the world over are wont to always tell us that a good prognosis precedes a good diagnosis. Borrowing a leave from the physicians, Social Commentators and Public Affairs Analysts would want to make us believe that a drastic disease calls for an equal drastic measure of cure. Both are probably incontestably right. Last week, friends and associates of the frontline legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola,...Read More

  Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), the acclaimed fastest growing university in Africa, has scored yet another ‘first’ with the first set of its students graduating within four years of a predictable and uninterrupted academic calendar. The students who commenced academic work on January 4, 2010 are graduating this month (June), thereby confirming the Founder, Aare Afe Babalola’s determination and resolve to reform and revolutionize Nigeria’s educational landscape by leading...Read More

The Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has said that Nigeria would be a better place for all if those who should make it better are ready to apply themselves to make it better. Receiving members of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the legal icon reiterated that with the monumental achievements of the university in less than four...Read More

In its unbending desire to truly lead others by example to change the face of functional education in Nigeria, the nascent Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) has established an Institute of Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES). Speaking at the inauguration of the Board of Directors of the Institute in Ado-Ekiti over the weekend, its Executive Director, Mr. Patrick Tolani, said the independent multi-disciplinary Institute was established last...Read More