Again, the clamour to amend clause 72a and 73 of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Act 2011, and expand its scope of intervention, on Monday, suffered a major setback as stakeholders forcefully rejected any change to the law. According the report, two separate bills proposing the amendments had passed first and second reading at the House of Representatives and came up for public hearing on Monday where stakeholders tersely...Read More

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and founder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has described Governor Ayodele Fayose as a patriot. The legal luminary also described Fayose as a magician, miracle maker, architect, planner, visionary and executioner who has changed the face of the judiciary in Ekiti State. Babalola poured the encomiums on Fayose for completing the new ultra modern Ekiti State High Court...Read More

POLITICAL PARTY FINANCE AND GODFATHERISM One of the problems militating against true development by the political parties in Nigeriais the absence of internal democracy often symbolized by what has come to be known as the godfather factor or godfatherism. I do not intend to attempt an academic exposition of the phenomenon known as godfatherism in Nigerian politics. I therefore will not tread the path of academics who are often more...Read More

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen Yakubu Gowon, two former Nigerian leaders, have lauded the efforts of the Aare Afe Babalola for establishing a world-class university. Obasanjo and Gowon gave the commendation in Ado-Ekiti at the inauguration of the state-of-the art facilities in the institution. Among projects commissioned were 18 metres Dome Planetarium for Exploratory Trip for Space, Tele-medicine equipment at the Teaching Hospital that would facilitate free interaction of Aster...Read More

The Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD) is set to commission the largest fixed dome Planetariums in Africa and one of the largest in the world, built in the University. The Planetarium which is the first to be built in Africa is equipped with Astronomical observatory. Other projects to be commissioned also include sophisticated telemedicine equipment donated by Aster DM Health Care of Dubai; ultra-modern post graduate building and hall...Read More