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 years of existence, “we are poised to challenge any institution in the world and stand side-by-side with them and we have the master plan and the time table to catch up with them in no distant future”.
Babalola recalled that ordinarily, a three-and half university should still be crawling, but due to a dint of hard work, dedication and determination, ABUAD, which has been described as the fastest growing university in Africa, is not only standing, but outstanding and already running, ready to catch up and beat those in existence before it.
According to him, education in ABUAD is not only about learning, it is also about industry, discipline and character moulding as well as inculcating decency in the heart of future leaders of the country.
Earlier, the President and Chairman of Council of the Institute, Mr. Ganiyu Koledoye, said what members of the institute have heard and seen in ABUAD propelled them to want to partner with the university so that students graduating in Social Sciences could take the institute’s professional examinations to become Chartered Marketers.
Koledoye who said those who have not been to ABUAD are missing a lot congratulated Babalola for the way he had deployed the God-given gift in him to the advantage of the down-trodden in particular and the society at large.
“Your life has not been wasted and you have been an encouragement to many of us in this generation. You have set a standard here by the decorum of teachers and the comportment of students who greet everyone they come in contact with”.