Babalola: I have Trained over 1,000 Lawyers, Produced 23 SANs

A legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has disclosed that he
has trained over 1,000 lawyers out of which 23 have become Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SANs) to strengthen the legal profession in
the country.

Babalola added that in his almost six decades of legal practice,
he had trained lawyers who have become Federal Attorneys-General,
High Court Judges and Justices of the Appellate Courts.

He stated this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, yesterday in a
statement made available to journalists by the Director, Corporate
Affairs of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Mr. Tunde
Olofintila, where he announced the date for the Annual Aware Are
Babalola public lecture organised by the Nigerian Bar Association
(NBA), Ado Ekiti branch, to honour the legal luminary.

The statement noted that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan
Ogunwusi, will on May 4, 2021, chair the 10th annual public lecture
to garland Babalola for his contributions to the legal
profession.

Speaking on the impending lecture, the founder of ABUAD said his
love for legal profession had also spurred him to publish six major
law books which he said have enriched law practice in the
country.

The books, according to Babalola, are: ‘Injunctions and
Enforcement of Orders (the only authoritative book on the important
subject)’; ‘Law and Practice of Evidence in Nigeria’; Enforcement
of Judgment, Election Law and Practice in Nigeria, the leading
authority on the subject in the country widely used by Judges,
lawyers and politicians throughout the country.

Others are ‘University Administration in Nigeria, a book
presented to the Committee of Pro Chancellors in 2005.

He said: The NUC has printed the book for circulation among all
university administrators in the country. “Based on his boundless
love for his chosen profession, Babalola also built multi-million
naira Bar Centres for Ibadan and Ado-Ekiti branches of the NBA.

“At some point in his rich legal career, he lectured at the
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos,
and at the Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan, as well as
the Centre for African Law and Development Studies,” the statement
said.

A legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has disclosed that he
has trained over 1,000 lawyers out of which 23 have become Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SANs) to strengthen the legal profession in
the country.

Babalola added that in his almost six decades of legal practice,
he had trained lawyers who have become Federal Attorneys-General,
High Court Judges and Justices of the Appellate Courts.

He stated this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, yesterday in a
statement made available to journalists by the Director, Corporate
Affairs of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Mr. Tunde
Olofintila, where he announced the date for the Annual Aware Are
Babalola public lecture organised by the Nigerian Bar Association
(NBA), Ado Ekiti branch, to honour the legal luminary.

The statement noted that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan
Ogunwusi, will on May 4, 2021, chair the 10th annual public lecture
to garland Babalola for his contributions to the legal
profession.

Speaking on the impending lecture, the founder of ABUAD said his
love for legal profession had also spurred him to publish six major
law books which he said have enriched law practice in the
country.

The books, according to Babalola, are: ‘Injunctions and
Enforcement of Orders (the only authoritative book on the important
subject)’; ‘Law and Practice of Evidence in Nigeria’; Enforcement
of Judgment, Election Law and Practice in Nigeria, the leading
authority on the subject in the country widely used by Judges,
lawyers and politicians throughout the country.

Others are ‘University Administration in Nigeria, a book
presented to the Committee of Pro Chancellors in 2005.

He said: The NUC has printed the book for circulation among all
university administrators in the country. “Based on his boundless
love for his chosen profession, Babalola also built multi-million
naira Bar Centres for Ibadan and Ado-Ekiti branches of the NBA.

“At some point in his rich legal career, he lectured at the
Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Lagos,
and at the Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan, as well as
the Centre for African Law and Development Studies,” the statement
said.