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By Victor Ogunje A legal icon and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) , has written a letter to the Southern Governors Forum (SGF), seeking the governors’ backing for his proposed convocation of a private summit to discuss all the problems confronting the nation. Babalola sought the SGF’s backing for the concept tagged: “Summit of Hope,” having passed a resolution urging President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a National Conference to restructure the country despite Presidency’s foreclosure of such policy. Babalola in a letter dated May 1...

Share The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships (ARISP) of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Professor Damilola Olawuyi (SAN) has called for rapid reform of legal education in Nigeria in order to develop practice-ready lawyers who can contribute meaningfully to Nigeria’s economic rebirth. Prof Olawuyi, a frontline energy law expert and the co-Chairman of the Legal Education Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), made the call at the Bar Lecture organized as part of the 10th Anniversary Law Week of the Ado Ekiti Branch of the NBA wi...