At 80, Babalola teaches law at ABUAD

Babalola teaching at ABUAD

 

Not many Nigerians know that Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) now lectures in a university. But FEMI MAKINDE in this report, narrates his experience after attending the legal luminary’s Law of Evidence class at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, last Wednesday

 

To say that the Proprietor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), is passionate about education is to say the least.

 

He does not just love education; he has sponsored the education of many less privileged Nigerians. Besides, he has been on the council of many universities until he established ABUAD.

 

Now 80, Babalola, who started out in life as a teacher, has gone back to the classroom as a lecturer in his own university. He had ventured into the law profession after some years of teaching in some secondary schools.

 

 He even became a vice-principal before he ventured into the law profession. But today, Babalola is now back in the classroom where he teaches courses in Law of Evidence and Leadership in ABUAD.