By Aare Afe Babalola LAST week, I examined the practice in England, India and Canada. In this edition, I will deal with the practice in USA, Australia and Kenya. The United States of America: Similar to the practice in England and Canada, there is no central “American Law School” where all law graduates converge for […]

INTRODUCTION: For many years, the  quality of lawyers produced and injected into the Nigerian legal profession has waned at such a geometric state that worries even the most optimistic lawyers. Those who had the privilege of being trained in any of the Inns of the English Court, as was the practice before the establishment of […]

By Aare Afe Babalola INTRODUCTION: For many years, the quality of lawyers produced and injected into the Nigerian legal profession has waned at such a geometric state that worries even the most optimistic lawyers. Those who had the privilege of being trained in any of the Inns of the English Court, as was the practice […]

By Aare Afe Babalola LAST week, I published my reaction to some of the comments I received on my articles on “the race to eradicate man from planet earth through nuclear and chemical weapons”. This week, I will publish my second round of replies to the burning issue on the possibility of man’s eradication from […]

By Aare Afe Babalola I STARTED publishing weekly  articles  in the defunct Daily Sketch newspaper in the late ’60s. When the company folded up, I switched to Nigerian Tribune and later I also published in the Vanguard. In all, I have published over 2,500 articles. I must confess that over the last five decades, I […]

By Aare Afe Babalola I REMEMBER a young girl, in company of her parents visited my Planetarium, which is one of the three in Africa. When she saw how vast the universe is, something came to her mind. She turned to her mother and said: “Mummy, where is heaven”? In reply, her mother said to her: […]

By Aare Afe Babalola In my series of newspaper articles in February, March and April 2022, I have out of concern drawn the attention of the world to the most unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia and its most unpalatable global consequences, an action which I described as a classic example of the popular saying that “when […]

By Aare Afe Babalola LAST week, I examined the problems of welfare and accommodation afflicting the Nigeria Police Force and the consequences. This week, however, I will be x-raying the cankerworm called corruption and how it has affected the country and the Nigeria Police. It is no more news that for some times now, things have […]

By Aare Afe Babalola IN this edition, I will examine one of the challenges facing the Nigeria Police which is accommodation and welfare provisions. It is common knowledge that police work anywhere in the world can be very dangerous and stressful. In addition to the obvious dangers inherent in prevention of crime and direct confrontation […]

By Aare Afe Babalola THE first question a first time visitor to London, nay any European city, would ask is: why is there so much cleanliness, peace and order on the streets? Sooner or later, the visitor would observe that in every corner or street, there is a stately and well-dressed police man or woman […]