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The case between Dele Farotimi and Afe Babalola reached a climax when we were informed early on Monday morning that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, had intervened. Media reports indicated that the traditional ruler and a consortium of elders met Babalola the previous night. Even though the story was reported in multiple media […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday struck out the defamation charge filed by the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, against activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, over alleged cybercrime. When the case was called, counsel for the complainant, Samson Osobu, informed the court that the prosecution had filed a notice of discontinuance. […]
Continue ReadingFounder of the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, has announced his decision to withdraw all criminal defamation and civil cases in court against rights activist, lawyer and author, Dele Farotimi. His decision to discontinue the proceedings follows an appeal made by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and other prominent Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) in its report (B8B/LPDC/1571/2024), has rejected the request from Chief Afe Babalola’s SAN law firm, Emmanuel Chambers, to revoke the practising licence of lawyer and author Tomilola Farotimi, also known as Dele Farotimi, over allegations of criminal defamation and professional misconduct. A petition submitted by a lawyer from Emmanuel […]
Continue ReadingMost of those who have commented or are commenting on the Dele Farotimi-Afe Babalola saga have not read the book at the heart of the story: Farotimi’s Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. I have. I bought a digital copy from Amazon last week, and spent four hours slowly reading – more appropriately, perusing – the […]
Continue ReadingThere appears to be panic and deep pain in Afe Babalola’s actions since the publication and sales of the new international bestseller, Dele Farotimi’s book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. It became a bestseller precisely because the all-powerful Mr Babalola is determined to stop Nigerians and the international community from reading it. Apparently, no one […]
Continue ReadingNigerian lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Dele Farotimi, has maintained that he did not send anybody, on his own behalf, to beg or plead with Chief Afe Babalola SAN. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State and federal courts for criminal defamation and cyber bulling in a complaint lodged against him by the legal […]
Continue ReadingContrary to assertions by some so-called experts who have been prattling all week that Dele Farotimi wrote what he could not logically substantiate in his book Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System, this was a pre-meditated confrontation. Having depleted the legal means to get justice, he wrote to re-litigate the case in the court of […]
Continue ReadingLaw Firm of Afe Babalola has submitted a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee seeking the removal of a lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, from the roll of Nigerian legal practitioners. The petition alleged that Farotimi violated certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers. The 90-page petition, dated December […]
Continue ReadingIn Nigeria and beyond, there has been a surge of support for Dele Farotimi, the lawyer, author, and publisher who was reportedly taken from his Lagos home by the police last week and transported to Ekiti State. Farotimi was alleged to have committed civil offences against Afe Babalola, a fellow lawyer and founder of Afe […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State governor, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) shocked so many people at a public function recently. Oyebanji pocketed all the arrogance and splendor of office as a sitting executive governor of his State when he met the 93-year-old founder and owner of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, at a public function, […]
Continue ReadingSenior Nigerian lawyer, founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University (ABUA), Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola SAN has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi is the most qualified person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Chief Babalola said the only people opposed to Obi are those who participated […]
Continue ReadingEKITI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IMPEACHMENT SAGA: THIS CONSTITUTIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC RASCALITY MUST STOP HENCEFORTH!!! Ekiti State is globally known as ile iyi, ile eye (land of honour, land of dignity). By all standards, and especially on account of the excellent virtues and priceless values that Ekiti people are primordially known for, it is simply […]
Continue ReadingLast week, I discussed the recent move by the Senate to create six additional law school campuses for the geopolitical zones which, as decipherable by a discerning mind, is nothing more than an intrusion into the functions of the Council of Legal Education and a superfluous venture into politicising the process. As I had noted […]
Continue ReadingThe Senate recently approved the establishment of six additional campuses of the Nigerian Law School, in addition to the seven existing ones. By this development, two campuses, i.e., the Jos Law School Campus, Plateau State and the Kabba Law School Campus, Kogi State have been established for the North Central geo-political zone; two campuses, i.e., […]
Continue ReadingAfe Babalola University founder and legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, has urged the National Assembly to find ways of reawakening and reenacting the 1963 Constitution, as against the 1999 Constitution being contemplated for amendment. In a statement he personally signed in Ado Ekiti, he said the 1999 constitution would not solve Nigeria’s problems. “Alternatively, […]
Continue ReadingChief Afe Babalola SAN and Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, have on Wednesday, been ordered by Nigerian Supreme Court, to personally pay fine of N30 million each for agreeing to file an application for the review of its judgment on Bayelsa election. Justice Amina Augie announced the said fine while reading the judgment in the APC’s applications […]
Continue ReadingFounder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, has said the news of crude oil discovery in the North gladdens his heart, because such a discovery will hasten the restructuring of the country. Speaking in Lagos on Wednesday at the maiden edition of the Goke Omisore Annual Lecture organised by the […]
Continue ReadingLegal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, has disclosed why he turned down ministerial appointments while speaking at the dinner organized in celebration of conferment of honorary doctor of letters on him by the University of Ibadan (UI). According to the founder of Afe Babalola University, he can’t work with […]
Continue ReadingRenowned legal practitioner, Chief Afe Babalola, has made a shocking claim that Nigeria’s DSS is not empowered by law to arrest. He disclosed this while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s News Night. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) argued that the DSS’ constitutional job description is to gather information that might threaten the […]
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