Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb, FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor, MESSAGE TO OUR DEAR ABUAD PARENTS/GUARDIANS/SPONSORS & STUDENTS Introduction: We are all too familiar with the deep concern and frustration the continued closure of educational institutions in the country since Monday, March 23, 2020 has visited on all stakeholders in nation’s Education sub-sector, including students, Faculty, parents, guardians and proprietors. This ill-wind has been further compounded by the continued ban on...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD In the preceding editions, much of the focus has been on the medical response to the novel coronavirus disease, both in Nigeria and the world at large. It is, however, pertinent to consider the dire socio-economic consequences of Nigeria’s unpreparedness for this pandemic, with specific reference to Nigeria’s inflation and rise in external debt, the sustainability of the low-income Nigerian, among others. The...Read More
Professor E. Smaranda Olarinde FCArb., FCAI. Ag. Vice Chancellor Exploring ancestral wisdom to combat Covid-19 It is no longer news that the ravaging Covid-19 has changed the educational, political, and economic as well as the medical equations of the world. What will be the heart-warming news is that someone or some institutions have at last found a cure for the pandemic that has rocked the world to its very foundation...Read More
Aare Afe Babalola SAN Founder/President , ABUAD PANDEMICS IN HISTORY : Was Nigeria Prepared for Covid-19? (2) LAST WEEK, I commenced a discussion on the novel Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) which has dealt a huge blow on the world’s socio-economic structure. I detailed the chronology of pandemics which have, in times past, shaped human existence, including but not limited to the Black Death of 1350 and the Spanish Flu of...Read More
