Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD CLUB FOR RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA WELCOMES OBASANJO: SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE BEFORE 2023 ELECTIONS (2) LAST week’s discussion centered on an examination of the need to revisit the institutional and socio-political structure of Nigeria and embrace a new structural reform which will decentralize power to the regional units. Equally, I considered the views of some Nigerians, including mine, expressed in times past, on the subject...Read More

The Department of International Relations and Diplomacy Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria 2-Day Virtual International Conference Theme COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of International Relations Date: 15 – 16 July 2020 Time: 2pm West Central Africa At the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease in late December 2019 (COVID-19), the world entered into 2020 in utter dread of a borderless ferocious “invisible enemy.” The international crisis triggered by the COVID-19...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD THE GEORGE FLOYD KILLING: DISSIMILARITIES BETWEEN NIGERIAN LAWS AND U.S LAWS (2) LAST week, I discussed the incidence of the George Floyd killing and implications of the criminal charges levied against Chauvin and the other 3 police officers who were complicit in his murder. I equally discussed the Nigerian perspective to the criminal charges levied against Chauvin and the 3 accomplices who would,...Read More

Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD NIGERIA’S INCREASING DEBT WORRISOME: USE RECOVERED LOOT AS ALTERNATIVE The origin of Nigeria’s external debt dates back to 1958 when a loan of US$28 million was obtained from the World Bank. The funds, which was made available to the Nigerian Railway Corporation, was for a five-year tenor to improve Nigeria’s rail system and to build a new line into the North-eastern province for...Read More

Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde, FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor INTRODUCTION When the ravaging and rampaging Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Nigeria sometimes in February 2020, nobody, no institution, not even the World Health Organization (WHO), knew how far-reaching the devastating and debilitating effects of the invisible killer, which has claimed many lives and grounded the economy, could be. Nigeria has not rested on its oars in the face of the...Read More