In the course of the past weeks, Nigeria has witnessed protests, the likes of which had not been witnessed before, against Police brutality. From Lagos to Abuja, from Nguru to Port Harcourt, the message has been the same: there must be an end to the ills such as extra-judicial killings, indiscriminate arrests, detention, harassment, extortion […]

By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, This is the third and concluding part of this piece which, last week, made a strong case for adequate funding of universities Committee of registrars of Nigerian universities: The Committee of Registrars of Nigerian Universities sent a memo to the government on this matter in 1996. The first of the […]

    By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, The governorship elections in Edo State have come and gone. The political gladiators and their supporters, depending on which side of the divide they belong, are either celebrating or have gone back to the trenches to fight another day. The Press have been quick to celebrate the victory […]

By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, In last week’s edition, I examined the history of the first universities in the world. The early universities were corporations of students and masters, who were chartered by the Pope and later by Emperors and Kings and now by Parliament or State Governments. Such universities included the university at Constantinople […]

By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR According to recent statistics from the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt profile has hit an all-time high of N28.63 trillion as of the first quarter of the year 2020 – representing a 4.49 percent increase from the N27.40 trillion being Nigeria’s indebtedness as at the last quarter of […]

By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, In 2018 following events in Imo and Benue states bordering on attempts to impeach elected officials, I examined the process stipulated by law for the impeachment of a Governor/Deputy Governor. Interestingly, in 2020 attempts by legislators to impeach more elected officials have again been reported. The first case arose in […]

NIGERIA is one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, with a population of 205,668,183 as at Monday, June 1, 2020, thereby constituting 2.64 per cent of the total world population

By Chief Afe Babalola It is no longer news that SARS-CoV-2, renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation on February 11, 2020, has taken the world by storm, transcending borders and geographical landscapes, defying orthodox treatments and holding several economies, first-world and third-world alike, to ransom. Besides its dire health implications, the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

By Aare Afe Babalola IT is no longer news that SARS-CoV-2, renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation on February 11, 2020, has taken the world by storm, transcending borders and geographical landscapes, defying orthodox treatments and holding several economies, first-world and third-world alike, to ransom. Besides its dire health implications, the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

  By Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, In the last week edition, I identified the economic and expansion reasons behind the British Colonial Masters’ assault and bastardization of the age-long tradition of great and influential Obas along the Atlantic Coastline. This week, I intend to write on three great Obas whose kingdom extend to the Atlantic […]