The Federal Government on Sunday said it was losing 9 billion dollars (N3.2 trillion) annually due to poor investment in agriculture before the present administration came to power.
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Babalola said on Monday in Ado-Ekiti that the unified examinations would be for all final year students in every course in Nigerian universities.
Ask for Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) from anybody in the street in Ekiti, Ibadan, Enugu, Kano, Abuja or Port Harcourt, the ready answer will come in torrents: Afe Babalola is a distinguished legal luminary, Afe Babalola is an Ekiti man. Afe Babalola is a self-made man. Afe Babalola is the Aare Bamofin of Yoruba land. Afe Babalola is a philanthropist. Afe Babalola is Obasanjo’s legal adviser. Afe Babalola is one of the prominent founders of Ekiti state. Yes, these are factual descriptions of who Afe Babalola is. But those descriptions are not and cannot be the actual definition of who Afe Babalola is.
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, joined Nigerian Bar Association and National Judicial Council in celebrating one of the country’s brightest and resourceful lawyers, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on his 87th birthday.
Austen-Peters told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos in an interview in Lagos that the art world had become global where cultural influences were drawn from all participants.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor, made the promise while speaking at 2018 edition of the Annual Udiroko Festival in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
From the heavy presence of Okada Riders, youth and women leaders who jam-packed the premises of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital that Friday night with many of them pulling their shirts to donate blood while I was in surgery to the powerful presence of delegation of the Ewi of Ado Ekiti and Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti by Saturday morning, followed by the personal visit of our referred Aare Afe Babalola, who was accompanied by his wife and principal functionaries of Afe Babalola University.
The duo spoke on Monday in Ado Ekiti at the inauguration of four ultra-modern projects instituted on the campus of the university.
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), the organiser of Afe Babalola Agricultural Exhibition, code named: “ABA-EX 2017,” gave the prize to the winner on Sunday at the closing of the exhibition at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti.
He made the request in a petition he addressed to the Chairman of ICPC, Ekpo Nta, detailing how the former solicitor-general allegedly abused his office and hijacked the briefs he handled for the family of Eletu in the Supreme Court while his professional fees had not been paid.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Rosolu was convicted on all the two counts charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretences brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
The party said the Senior Advocate of Nigeria was wrong to have continued to praise Governor Ayodele Fayose in the media for winning the award though CIRDDOC’s award was on the basis of the 2014 budget appraisal
It said the messianic posturing by Fayose who has urged his fellow governors to cut overseas trips and shun opulence instead of cutting workers’ pay was the height of hypocrisy by the governor and fraud on Nigerian workers
The personalities pleaded on behalf of the SSG during the celebration of the 25th coronation anniversary of Oba Adejugbe Aladesanmi in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday
He said his refusal was not out of pride but the conviction that his law practice was enough to make him comfortable and also contribute to national development
According to a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Fayose, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, the legal Icon, who disclosed that he always carefully choose his words, said the governor has made it possible for Ekiti State to again put on her toga as the Political King
“Fred Ajudua did not brief our firm to represent him at any time and we did not receive any money from Fred Ajudua in respect of General Ishaya Bamaiyi. We did not represent Gen. Bamaiyi and we did not receive any money from Fred Ajudua,” he said
Elder statesmen at the meeting were the convener, Afe Babalola; Chief Deji Fasuan; Dr. Kunle Olajide; a former Minister of Information, Chief Ayo Ogunlade; and the Vice Chancellor of ABUAD, Prof. Michael Ajisafe, Four of the seven lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by the factional Speaker, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, attended the meeting
The lawmakers had late on Wednesday said they will shun the peace meeting because information available to them indicated they would be arrested
This information was contained in a statement issued by Tunde Olofintina, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, on Monday in Ado-Ekiti