{"id":6893,"date":"2016-11-21T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6893"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:10:41","slug":"babalola-chief-emmanuel-afe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/babalola-chief-emmanuel-afe\/","title":{"rendered":"BABALOLA, Chief Emmanuel Afe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFR, SAN, B.Sc, LL.B, B.L, FFPA; legal practitioner, lecturer, philanthropist, administrator; b: October 18, 1932; p: Ado Ekiti; ht: Ado Ekiti; so: Ekiti: ed: Emmanuel Primary School, Ado-Ekiti, 1938-45; Trained as an Elementary School Teacher for two years; Passed Teachers Grade II Examination (by Private Study), 1951; Cambridge Certificate Examination, 1952; General Certificate of Education, Ordinary Level, 1953; General Certificate of Education, Advanced Level, 1954; University of London. External Student, 1958-59; 1960-63; cr: Counsel, Olu Ayoola and Company, 1964-65; Head\/Principal Partner, Afe Babalola and Company, Emmanuel Chambers, since 1965; Lecturer, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos, since 1989; Lecturer, Centre for African Law Development, Lagos; Counsel, Federal Government, in the celebrated 2.8 billion enquiry; Counsel, Basourun Abiola and Are Ona kankanfo Case; Counsel, Chief Abiolaon the June 12, Presidential ElectionAnnulment, 1993; Counsel, Chief Odutola vs Union Bank of Nigeria on Foreign Exchange; Counsel, Odu&#8217;a Group of Companies in the sensational case against Cocoa Board, 1985; Counsel, Ife vs Modakeke Dispute; Andu Engineering Services Ltd. vs Water Corporation of Oyo State and others; Counsel. Erin-Ile v Offa Boundary Disputes; Counsel, M. L. Lee Group of Companies, with Headquarters in Hong Kong; Counsel, Motor Phone vs NCC, GSM Case; Consultant, World Bank; Led 42 Lawyers (in defence of the present head of state, President Olusegun Obasanjo in the Olu Falae&#8217;s election petitions against him, 1999; Pro-chancellor\/ch: University of Lagos Governing Council, 2000-04; re-appointed ch: Council, University of Lagos, 2005; National Political Reform Conference&#8217;s Committee on Revenue Sharing, mm: Nigerian Bar Association; International Bar Association; Body of Benchers; Judicial Commission, Ekiti State; Trustee, Transparency International, Nigeria branch, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany; Mellamby Hall University of Ibadan; f: Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, 1997; Ondo State College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, 1998; Leadership Institute of Nigeria, 2001; Patron, Law Societies, Obafemi Awolowo University; Ogun State University; University of Ado-Ekiti and University of Lagos; Patron, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Oyo State branch; Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Ondo and Ekiti States; Elders Forum, Advisory Body to the Government of Ekiti State; Leader, Delegation for the Establishment of University of Technology, Ado Ekiti, 1981; First ch. Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti: Frontline Crusader, presented and defended the petition for the creation of Ekiti State before Mbanefo Panel, 1996; Advisory Board, Ogun State University, Ago Iwoye; award: Winner, highest tax payer award, Ondo State, 1990; 1991; Professional of the year award, Ekiti State, 1987; Patriot of the year award, Ado Ekiti, 1994; Certificate of merit in recognition of his contributions to the creation and development of Ekiti State in its first year of creation; Best Pro-Chancellor of Nigerian Universities, by National Universities Commission, 2005; ah: Doctor of Law, University of Ado-Ekiti, 2002; f. Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, December, 2002; nh: SAN 1987; Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic, 2000; tt: Afiwajoye of Ado-Ekiti, 1977; Babamofin of Aramoko Community, 1988; Mayegun of Modakeke Community, 1989; Balogun of Mobaland, 1990; publ: Weekly Columnist, &#8220;You and the Law&#8221; Nigerian Tribune, every Monday; Author of many books and well over one hundred and twenty articles in several law journals; sc: Patron, Ekiti Stars Club; off: Emmanuel Chambers, Adekunle Fajuyi Road, Opposite Adamasigba Stadium, Ibadan, Oyo State; tel: 02- 2410840.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6893","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}