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  • Afe Babalola rewards ABUAD athletes with N1.5 m

    IT was celebration galore at the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) on Monday as the Founder and Chancellor, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, rewarded the 75-man contingent to the 13th Nigerian Universities Staff Sports Association (NUSSA) Games with N1,500,000 for topping the medals’ table.

    It was the university’s first time at the Games hosted by the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN).   The team won nine gold, seven silver and 10 bronze medals – 26 in all.

    Receiving the 14-carat Gold-plated trophy from the team at a reception in company of his wife, Yeye Aare Modupe, Babalola thanked the athletes for doing the university proud with their superlative performance which follows recent academic achievements by the institution.

    He said: “I was very impressed when the Vice Chancellor came to tell me that we emerged the overall winner at the Ilorin Games despite the fact that that was our first appearance at the tournament. That has gone a long way to confirm the stuff we are made of.

    “The world has been celebrating our excellence in Academics. NUC said our Law College is the Best in West Africa. The Nigerian Society of Engineers dubbed our engineering programme the template for engineering education in Nigeria and we have just performed the feat of being the first university in the country to produce its pioneer 43 medical doctors within six-and-half years of the commencement of its MBBS programme, scoring 100 per cent and with eight Distinctions, the equivalent of First Class Degrees in other disciplines.

    “For your superlative performance at Ilorin, you have added to the streak of ‘Firsts’ recorded by the university for which we thank and celebrate you. As a full demonstration of that, the Bursary Department is here to give all Medalists Cash Awards totaling N1.5 million and a sumptuous lunch for you all in appreciation of your excellent performance”.

    Sixty-three  federal state and private universities participated in the Games which featured 16 sports.

    One of the most significant win for ABUAD was its gold in football.  The ABUAD Team defeated the University Ibadan Team to emerge the overall winner of the tourney.

    In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Michael Ajisafe, the first professor of Sports Science in Africa, thanked Babalola for providing the resources and the enabling environment for both staff and students to excel at national competitions.

    He said ABUAD students also came second in the 6th edition of the Nigeria Private Universities Games (NPUGA) in December 2015 when the institution was just five years old.

    Ajisafe attributed the university’s success in sports to its modern sporting facilities including nine courts, a 1,000-capacity pavilion, Olympic size Swimming Pool, football pitch, and a Talent Discovery Centre which houses 28 different Games.

    Lead Coach, Mr. Toba Bamitale, thanked Babalola and the university management for believing in the workers and supporting them in all ways possible.  He promised that the university would do better in the next edition of the Games.

  • 72 ABUAD students bag first class honours

    .ADESINA, MOMOH TO RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATES

    .ABUAD, A MODEL IN NIGERIA, SAYS BISHOP OKE

     

    Seventy two students of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti ( ABUAD ) will graduate with First Class honours at the 6th Convocation.

    The Vice Chancellor, Prof Michael Ajisafe, who disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing to herald activities marking the convocation.

    Ajisafe explained that all the first class graduates have been offered automatic jobs as academic staff.

    Graduating students who bagged Second Class Upper are 343 while 366 obtained Second Class Lower.

    A total of 93 students bagged Third Class. Total number of graduating students is 917.

    Two distinguished Nigerians will be honoured with honorary doctorate degrees.

    They are the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Channels Television.

    The duo will be bestowed with honorary Doctor of Letters.

    Momoh will deliver the convocation lecture on Saturday.

    Ajisafe explained that the University was graduating its first set of medical doctors which he described as unprecedented.

    Meanwhile, the President of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has described Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti
    (ABUAD) as a model for other universities in Nigeria.

    Oke, who is also the Bishop of Christ Life Church with headquarters in Ibadan, said ABUAD is the answer to what Nigerians are looking for in Europe and other parts of the world.

    The cleric who said he had been to other universities in Nigeria stressed that ABUAD stands out in terms of academic excellence, quality assurance and a citadel of learning to emulate.

    Oke made the remarks on Sunday at the thanksgiving service to mark the 6th Convocation of the university.

    The bishop said that the ABUAD is a message to other Nigerian Universities, that “they can be centers’ of excellence and an all round human development centers, as well as of global reckoning.”

    He said: “If it is possible in ABUAD, it is also possible in other universities. I have been to the university to study and I have friends who own Universities, but ABUAD stand out.”

  • ABUAD has given me future, says best medical student Azom

    Pioneer doctors of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) College of Medicine, took the Hippocratic oath last Thursday, after completing their studies in a record six and a half years. The event produced the Best Graduating – Azom Esther Adaobi – amid other side attractions.

    Azom described the eight-year-old institution as the best, saying it taught her the “value of hardwork”.

    Azom, 25, emerged best among the 43 pioneer doctors who took the oath at ABUAD’s maiden induction.

    Azom made a Distinction in Medicine, Surgery, and Community Medicine in her final medical examination conducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

    Amid applause that shook the 5000-capacity Alfa Belgore auditorium, Azom got a brand new MG3 automobile worth N5.7 million. She was also presented N500,000 and N250,000 cheques by ABUAD Founder Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), and the Special Guest of Honour, Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi.

    “I thank ABUAD and I thank God for this special honour because I cannot overlook the important role God played in the last six and half years of my stay at the university,” Azom began.

    “Being a medical student, I was encouraged to work harder. Above all, the end has been wonderful because hard work and consistency in the grade were key.”

    An indigene of Anambra State, Axom at 18, was already in her first year as an undergraduate of Medicine in ABUAD, having passed out from Baptist High School where she had her secondary school education with six straight As in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

    Axom said the glamorous life in ABUAD, and her gregarious lifestyle further improved her psychologically. Most importantly, the beautiful ambience and the state-of-the-art facilities spurred her into scholarship.

    She continued: “I had a very open social life in the university. I also made many friends but no intimate affairs with anybody. I was more interested in my studies so no room for boyfriends. My university is the best and the institution has made me understand that hard work pays immensely. That is what the good people have demonstrated to me and other winners. I want to thank the school management for the outcome of this endeavour.”

    Aare Babalola said he was impressed with Azom  who had been a five times beneficiary of  ABUAD’s N500,000 scholarship for students with outstanding Cumulative Grade Point across each of programmes run by the university at the end of each academic session.

    Her parents were the happiest among those in attendance.

    Her father Mr Emmanuel Azom, said except his first born Emmanuel who finished from University of Nigeria Nssuka (UNN), his third child and daughter Esther, was also a First Class graduate of Economics from ABUAD. She made a Distinction in her masters in the UK.

    A businessman, Azom showered encomiums on his wife who stayed back in Ado to attend to the children while he hustles in Lagos.

    The thought of a teaching appointment in her alma mater or any other institution does not appeal to Azom yet. According to her, the one-year mandatory housemanship is next in line; and the university of Ibadan Teaching Hospital (UCH) has already resolved that by taking Azom, and the two other outstanding graduates-Igbokwe Chiso and Apata Modupe Victoria for housemanship in UI.

    The National Universities Commission (NUC) was full of praises for ABUAD.

    The Executive Secretary (ES), Prof Abubakar Rasheed who was represented by the Director, Directorate of the ES Office Chris Mayaki, said the rate at which ABUAD builds infrastructure lends credence to its reputation as the fasted growing university in Africa.

    He said: “Afe Babalola University was established in 2009 and currently has six colleges. Since inception, the university has been a trailblazer and role model to all universities, irrespective of proprietorship. Only recently, this great institution commissioned four multi-billion naira projects, two of which were the first in Africa. It is also worthy of note, that An 18m fix Dome Planetarium with an astronomical observatory and one of the largest fixed Planetarium in the world, was commissioned in June of this year at a location not too far from this venue.

    “Similarly, sophisticated telemedicine equipment donated by the University’s partners Messrs Aster DM Healthcare Dubai, was commissioned to support the University’s ultra-modern 400-bed multi-system hospital in the area of tele-consulting, tele-diagnosis and tele-management.

    Rasheed said the Commission under his watch, has rededicated itself to aligning with universities, particularly those running a capital-intensive programme by opening up conversations geared towards partnership that are mutually beneficial.

    “We, at the NUC, are conscious of the fact that it takes courage and determination to run a university,” said the NUC helmsman.

    He continued: “It takes even more courage and determination to run such capital intensive programmes as Engineering, Medicine and the Medical Sciences, among others. On this note, I am pleased to  inform that since assuming office slightly over two years ago, the NUC under my stewardship, has opened  major  conversations with critical stakeholders and professional bodies alike, to primarily streamline and re-affirm our distinct roles which should be complimentary and not at cross purposes. The current discussions could entail a possible review of the current admission quota which has been adjudged to be insufficient and unrealistic, given the global enrolment trends and the challenge that lack of access poses to our HE system and our fast growing population, which is projected to surpass that of the United States by the year 2050.”

    The Commission, which also presented a brand new laptop to Azom, admonished the inductees to be kind and compassionate to those they meet on their path. They should embrace hardwork, professionalism, entrepreneurship and value creation.

    Oba Ogunwusi, who earlier instituted the ‘ABUAD Class of 43 Set’ with N1 million, said the gesture would harmonise the pioneer medical doctors and spur them to remember their alma mater.

    He urged the new doctors to make the forum, a platform for sharing ideas, while oiling the bond they formed once as ABUAD undergraduates.

    ‘I am giving this N1 million for the inauguration of ‘ABUAD Medical Students Class of 43’, the monarch said.

    “As the pioneer set, I want you all to form a bond, add value to ABUAD and the world as you move along.

    “You have my support anytime. You can easily reach out to me anytime you need my attention. I am for you all,” the monarch added.

    The Ooni, who said he would be visiting the university for the third time, stated that he fell in love with the institution because of its conducive environment and awesome facilities. He congratulated all ABUAD students, enjoining them to take advantage of the beautiful ambience and be good ambassadors.

    Earlier, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Michael Ajisafe, appealed to NUC to increase the admission quota of the university’s College of Medicine, in view of its state-of-the-art Medical Centre, as well as employment of more personnel to man the facility.

    Aare Babalola also praised the 43 inductees. He said as the pioneer set, they have set a standard as pathfinders in ABUAD. He equally praised Dr Cosmas Maduka who gave Azom a brand new car.

    Babalola recalled his boyhood days at Emmanuel Primary School when quality education delivery was in vogue. Nonetheless, he lamented what he described as ‘a dark cloud hovering over the country’s education landscape’ today.

    This, according to him, explained why ABUAD was birthed as a model on how quality education should be run, adding that he is happy that the nearly nine year-old institution is living its mandate.

    “I am happy to tell you that ABUAD was established some eight-and-half years ago with the purpose of changing the way things were being done. It was established to make a difference, and show how a university should and should not be run. Today, we are inundated with accolades, awards and encomiums from national and international stakeholders commending us for our uncommon achievements in our short history of existence.”

    Earlier, MDCN Registrar, Dr T. A. B Sanusi conducted the oath, while the Council’s National President Dr Francis Faduyile presented the provisional registration certificates to the new doctors.

  • ABUAD’s 43 pioneer doctors inducted

    •Best graduating student Azom gets car, cash

    The Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) yesterday inducted its 43 pioneer medical graduates.

    The university’s Best Graduating Student, Azom Esther Adaobi, was the cynosure of all eyes as she received a brand new MG3 automobile valued at N5.7 million, courtesy of an alumnus, Mr Cosmas Maduka.

    According to the institution’s management, Azom made a Distinction in Medicine, Surgery and Community Medicine in her final medical examination conducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).

    She had been a five-time beneficiary of ABUAD’s N500,000 scholarship for students with outstanding Cumulative Grade Point (CGP) in each of the programmes run by the university at the end of each academic session.

    ABUAD’s Founder, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), who instituted the scholarship award, also rewarded Azom with another N500,000 cheque.

    He also presented a N500,000 cheque to the second and third best graduating students -Igbokwe Chiso and Apata Module Victoria.

    Chairman of the event and Ooni of Ife, HRM Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, instituted the ‘ABUAD Class of 43’ with N1 million and N250,000 separately for Azom.

    While the N250,000 will be an annual presentation to the Best Graduating Student in Medicine, the N1 million was for the inauguration of the 43 Class which Oba Ogunwusi instituted as a forum for the graduates to give back to their alma mater and continue to relate with one another anywhere in the world.

    Oba Ogunwusi said: “I am giving this N1 million for the inauguration of ‘ABUAD Medical Students Class of 43’. As the pioneer set, I want you all to form a bond, add value to ABUAD and the world as you move along.

    “You have my support anytime. You can easily reach out to me anytime you need my attention. I am for you all.”

    The monarch said aside state-of-the-art facilities, he fell in love with the university’s anthem.

    He said the university is living each line of the anthem.

    The Ooni, who recalled that he had visited ABUAD twice, added that he would love to visit the institution as many times as he is called upon.

    He urged the students to unite and be good ambassadors of ABUAD and Nigeria.

    NDCN’s Registrar, Dr T. A. B. Sanusi, who conducted Physicians’ Pledge on the new doctors, congratulated ABUAD for ensuring that the students completed their programmes within six and a half years.

    He said the council has always insisted on minimum standard that are non-negotiable.

    According to him, the induction was the beginning of their careers while they will need to guide their loins as they compete with their contemporaries outside the country.

    Sanusi implored the new doctors to comply with the ethics of the profession.

    He said: “Being addressed as medical doctors carries a lot of responsibilities. You, therefore, need to comply with the ethical codes.

    “Infringement of ethical codes could lead to serious penalties, such as admonition, suspension or erasure of your name from MDCN’s register.

    “Once the council found you guilty, it may take you between five years, if you are suspended, or 10 years, if it is erasure. The most painful thing is that even if you are lucky to be restored, the report remains permanently in your resume anywhere you go seeking for job, and your potential employer would see it and want to know what infractions you committed.”

    MDCN’s National President, Dr Francis Faduyile who presented the provisional registration certificates to the new doctors, urged them to seek medical advice, especially from older colleagues, anytime they encounter hitches.

    He said: “You must henceforth live according to your new status. This is because you will now be held in high esteem in the society.

    “This is the beginning of your training. You need to be flexible and adapt yourselves to retraining in order to meet up with new challenges in the medical field.”

    The Chief Medical Director of the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof Temitope Oluwagbemiga Alonge, delivered the induction lecture, with the theme: Medicine by Choice or Medicine by Profession.

    He offered the mandatory housemanship to the three outstanding students at UI.

    Aare Babalola thanked parents of the new doctors for having confidence in him and ABUAD.

    The eminent lawyer said the induction confirmed the university’s resolve to bring medical education at same standard as obtained overseas and at 15 per cent less.

    He said the university was able to attain the features within six and half years because it complied with standard.

    Aare babalola said: “From my experience, there isn’t much compliance with rules and regulations in Nigeria. That is why there has been poor reading culture.

    “We are probably the only university in Nigeria that makes its students go to classes between 8 a.m and 3 p.m. There is no room for insolence here. This has paid off handsomely with the comments of the examiners during the final MBBS examination.

    “Some of them acknowledged the fact that the standard we set here is very high and that it will not be difficult for most of the new doctors to pass their first professional examination. That is the stuff we are made of here.”

     

  • ABUAD hospital trains 300 workers to tackle child mortality

    Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital (ABUADTH) has trained 300 of its workers in partnership with a United States agency, Project CURE, to tackle child mortality.

    The training tagged: ‘Helping a Baby Breathe,’ was borne out of the desire to reduce motherless babies and high number of orphanages caused by child mortality.

    Speaking at a dinner at the weekend for officials of Project CURE, the founder of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), Ado-Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, hailed the health agency for assistance to medical institutions in Africa and the developing world.

    He praised the President/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Dr. Douglas Jackson, for believing in humanity.

    Babalola said: “Project CURE has been of immense benefits to African nations. It has given over 300 sophisticated equipment to hospitals in Africa.

    “ABUADTH was a beneficiary of this benevolence meant to tackle poor health care needs of the citizens. The equipment ran into millions of dollars.

    “When I was born 90 years ago, deaths among children of between one day old and one year were high. Of 10 deliveries, hardly could you see two surviving.

    “My mother had 10 deliveries. Only four of us survived. Even as we speak now, we still have more mothers dying during child birth in Africa.

    “We thank Project CURE for this partnership. It will help in exposing our experts in modern techniques of making a child survive after birth.

    “We decided to partner you, because this university was established to make a difference in Nigeria and we assure you that we will extend the knowledge gained to other areas of Ekiti.”

    After presenting certificates of participation to the participants, Dr. Ramos said the first minute of a baby after its birth called golden minute was crucial for its survival.

    He urged experts to use the techniques to help the baby breathe, to reduce child mortality.

    Ramos added: “Project CURE is committed to improving the well-being of the people. This is why this partnership is going to be a long term one.

    “This helping the baby to survive initiative is a crucial aspect of medicine. It goes along with making mothers survive during labour. The two are like Siamese twins.

    “We thank ABUAD for going beyond the shores of Nigeria to seek help on how to improve the health sector, because it remains the most crucial aspect of medicine.

    “We want the experts to spread the gospel by teaching others the new technique in making a baby survive, by making them jettison the old style of slapping or turning babies upside down for them to take the first breathe.”

    The Provost, College of Health Sciences, Prof. Rotimi Sanya, said the initiative became important on the premise that not all babies could breathe after delivery, except they were aided medically.

    The dinner was attended by the Project CURE team led by Dr. Carlos Ramos and Dr. Lee Jones.

  • ABUAD ranked best private university

    Stakeholders are excited over the ranking of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) as the best of Nigeria’s 75 private universities.

    In the July ranking of world universities, the latest  by leading researcher  webometrics based in Spain, ABUAD is also ranked number 2 Best University among all Federal, state and private universities and polytechnics numbering about 278. 

    Parents and students are happy at this recognition,” an official told The Nation.

    The institutions were rated based on their presence, impact, openness and excellence. ABUAD was rated next to the University of Ibadan as the overall best in the country.

    Trailing ABUAD is Covenant University, Ota as the private-run varsity and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

    ABUAD was registered in November 2009 by renowned Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and educationist, who as the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos from 2001 to 2007 successfully reformed the university which was ranked No. 1 University in Nigeria in. He was also awarded the Best Pro-Chancellor award by the National University Commission (NUC).

    His decision to establish ABUAD was borne out of his personal experience garnered from the decay in the education system.

    The varsity was founded to be a practical example of how problems militating against the growth of varsities can be solved and lead others in quality and functional education.

    In its eight years of existence, ABUA is reputed as the fastest growing university in Africa.

    Its College of Law was acknowledged as the Best College of Law in West Africa by the NUC and its College of Engineering was described by the Nigeria Society of Engineering (NSE) as the Template for Engineering Education in the country.

    The College has won global awards in London and United States of America (USA).

    ABUA recently inaugurated an ultra-modern teaching hospital with latest teaching equipment. Health Minister Prof Isaac Adewole described the facility as the best of its kind in this part of the world which would put an end of medical tourism in the country.

    In 2015, the University of London in appreciation of his contribution to Law and Education awarded Aare Afe Babalola LL.D Degree.

     

  • ABUAD starts work on independent power plant

    Exactly one month after it commissioned four milestone projects witnessed by the crème-de-la-crème members of the society, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, on June 21, 2018 turned the sod of its Independent Power Project, IPP.

    This giant, bold and futuristic step in partnership with Project Consortium, Wema Bank Plc and FCMB Plc makes ABUAD, which the National Universities Commission, NUC, has acknowledged as the pride of university system in Nigeria” and dubbed “a world class institution of Higher Education” the first university to embark on such a project in Nigeria.

    This turning of the sod of the IPP is in tandem with the proclamation of the Founder of the university, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, earlier in the year that year 2018 would be a year of new things.

    The string of new things within the precinct of the university started with the turning of the sod of the university’s 121-unit Industrial Research Park on January 25, 2018, which was closely followed by the commencement of operations at the state-of-the-art 400-bed ABUAD Multi-system Hospital on March 21, 2018.

    Before the June 21, 2018 turning of the sod of ABUAD IPP, the university had on May 21, 2018 commissioned its Planetarium, the sophisticated Tele-medicine equipment donated to its Multi-system Hospital by its Partners, Aster DM of Dubai, and its state-of-the-art multi-billion Naira Postgraduate College & Halls of Residence as well as the modern Social & Management Sciences Complex.

    Speaking at the turning of the sod and in a tone garnished with a tinge of accomplishment, Babalola started off by saying: “ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you all to this monumental and milestone step taken by our university, the first of its king in Nigeria. This will appear to be a confirmation of the words of national and international education stakeholders like the NUC and UNESCO which have endorsed our university as a leader in quality and functional education”.

    He added: “To succeed as a university, we are in need of many important things like steady supply of electricity. This is more so because we are in a country where we have to provide amenities like road, water and electricity for ourselves which combine to make running a university like ours a very expensive venture.

    “I can tell you that ABUAD is one of the few universities in Nigeria where there is 24-hour power supply daily, but it is at our own instance. It is not cheap. It is not cheap because in addition to running on 24 giant generating sets in this university, we pay as much as N19 million to NEPA every month”.

    Adducing reasons for the ABUAD IPP, Babalola said with the university’s 121-unit Industrial Park and the 400-bed ABUAD Multi-system Hospital which was commissioned on October 20, last year and commenced operation on March 21, this year, there is the need for constant and uninterrupted power supply within the ABUAD community.

    During the sod turning proper which was preceded with prayer by the wife of the Founder and the Executive Chairman of ABUAD Ventures, Yeye Aare Modupe Babalola, Babalola called on other universities in Nigeria to follow his example by commencing their own power projects.

    In his own remarks, the Managing Director of Project Consortium, ABUAD”s partners on the IPP, Engr. Akinpelu Shogunle, thanked God for the manifestation of His prophesy that new things would be happening in ABUAD. He equally appreciated Babalola for his vision of establishing a world class university in Nigeria and for showing Nigerians how a university should be run.

    His words: “With what we are doing here today coupled with what I have seen in this university since I came in yesterday, history and posterity will not forget the Founder of this university. This is a university with a difference and we are happy to be partnering with this on this Power Project”.

    Shogunle, who had spent 44 years in the United States of America, plying his trade as a professional Engineer before he was discovered by Babalola, emphaised that ABUAD IPP is not the run-of-the-mill project, stressing that the Project would soon become a template that would involve ABUAD Engineering students so much so that others would in future come and understudy ABUAD’s IPP because it has been primed to be pleasantly and positively different.

    Earlier in her welcome address, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Smaranda Olarinde, who underscored the place and import of figure 21 in the life of the Founder, thanked Babalola for blessing the ABUAD community with another project on June 21, stressing that “every important thing happens here on the 21”.

    According to Olarinde, the partnership between ABUAD and Project Consortium is to ensure uninterrupted power supply in ABUAD, a 21st Century citadel of academic excellence, adding that the ABUAD IPP is unique because it is the first of its kind in any Nigerian university.

    She thanked Project Consortium, Wema Bank Plc and FCMB Plc for partnering with ABUAD on the IPP, adding that the ABUAD community is looking forward to a speedy completion of the Project for its members to witness its commissioning in the nearest future.

     

    • Olofintila is ABUAD’s spokesman

     

  • New tool brings world class medical services to ABUAD

    Tough health challenges? Overseas diagnosis may be just a click away – thanks to the equipment just acquired by the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State (ABUAD).

    The Technical Partners of ABUAD Multi System Hospital, Aster DM Healthcare of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday donated a telemedicine equipment to the 400-bed  hospital to support it and “in appreciation of the selfless achievements of its founder, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN”.

    With this equipment, ABUAD Multi System Hospital can engage in tele-consulting, tele-diagnosis and tele-management. A patient could be in front of the telemedicine equipment in Ado-Ekiti and doctors in Dubai would be able to diagnose what is wrong with him/her and advise on the appropriate treatment.

    The equipment will be used in procedures as consultants in Dubai would see what is going on in any of ABUAD’s five Modular Theatres and assist in whatever way possible.

    The donation was the high-point of the signing of the operations and management services agreement in technical services, managerial services and high and clinical services as well as training between the two partners, ABUAD Multi System Hospital and Aster DM Healthcare.

    Some of the services to be rendered by Aster DM Healthcare are the appointment of the chief operating officer (COO), operations plan, manpower planning, standard operating plans and system analysis and commissioning of the Hospital Information Management System (HIMS).

    Others are the supply of visiting super specialists to conduct medical missions. The collaboration will also result in the set-up of services for the benefit of Nigerians and patients undergoing cancer care.

    Part of the benefits accruable from the agreement is the provision of advice for smooth operations and development of ABUAD Multi System Hospital to ensure that it can offer high end clinical programmes for the benefit of Nigerian patients.

    ABUAD teachers, consultants, nurses and medical laboratory scientists as well as other allied medical professionals will be trained.

    Speaking at the signing of the agreement, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aster DM Healthcare Dr. Harisha Pillai, who represented the Chairman of Aster Medicity Hospital, Kochi, Dr. A Moopen, hailed Babalola for doing so much in his hospital within a very short time.

    In his view, there is no reason for Nigerians to travel out for medical care because everything is now available in ABUAD Multi System Hospital.

    Pillai said the gesture was also in appreciation of the quantum of sophisticated and state-of-the-art equipment at the hospital.

    Pillai described ABUADTH as a quality hospital that boasts of one of the best medical facilities in African.

    The Dubai hospital’s CEO said his group was in Nigeria at Babalola’s request to deploy the best medical personnel in the hospital.

    Aster Group is an international brand in the health . It has presence in United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Philippines and India.

    Pillai said the hospitals managed by the group receive large number of Nigerians, many of whom tabled the request to have the expertise in Nigeria hospitals.

    He added: “We have a plan to collaborate with Nigerian doctors here, to train them, nurses and other paramedics to make ABUADTH self-sufficient in human resources.

    “We congratulate Aare Afe Babalola for making this health facilities available. We will deploy our Chief Operating Officer here within a month.

    “You know this hospital is located on a highway and we will train the personnel in trauma care, neurosurgical services, among others.

    “We also plan to bring paediatric surgeons here so that Nigerian children will no longer be taken abroad for life-saving surgeries.

    “Our role is to assist the local personnel to grow on the job and in five years’ time, patients from other parts of Africa will be coming here.”

    An obviously elated Babalola said the signing of the agreement yesterday made the day one of the happiest moments in his life and in the life of Nigeria.

    Beaming with smiles, the renowned lawyer described himself as “a fulfilled man” because of the way he has been able to impact his generation and the society.

    Babalola said his passion about reducing medical tourism abroad necessitated the establishment of the hospital.

    He said: “Their (Aster Group’s) consultants will come here periodically and in the process minimise the amount paid as medical expenses abroad.

    “This will help us reduce our foreign medical trips. For example,  a patient who spends an average of N5 million going overseas will get treatment at a cheaper rate.

    “We are bringing quality healthcare to the doorsteps of our people and this collaboration will reduce medical expenses our people pay outside the country.”

  • Centre of Excellence in Haemodialysis for ABUAD

    Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti  (ABUAD), in collaboration with the Atlanta Georgia USA-based Bridge of Life (BOL), a non-profit organisation, is set to establish a Centre of Excellence in Haemodialysis at the ultra-modern 400-bed ABUAD Multi System Hospital.

    This is part of efforts to give back to the society and ensure quality health care for the people.

    The hospital, inaugurated on October 20 last year, began operations on March 21.

    Upon take-off, ABUAD/BOL Centre of Excellence will be the first in Africa “to serve men, women and children through four programme areas of kidney care, primary care and prevention and education as well as kids’ camps, thus bringing care of the kidney closer to the people.”

    Speaking at a one-day workshop on ABUAD/BOL Haemodialysis partnership in Ado-Ekti at the weekend, Mr. Christopher Atwater, BOL’s director of Technical Operations, recalled how impressed he was after his August 2017 on-site needs assessment at ABUAD Multi System Hospital as a result of which BOL launched its support with the Haemodialysis Unit of the hospital with architectural design and layout.

    He said: “I have been here before. I took photographs with the founder, Aare Afe Babalola. When I got back home in the United States, I checked him out online. What I saw about this man amazed me and fired my interest in him the more. Because of this interest in him and his modern university, I made up my mind to be part of this project. This is why I am here and I am happy to be here.”

    Atwater said the principal objective of the BOL Haemodialysis partnership all over the world was to empower people to set up their own Haemodialysis centres that would be internationally-acclaimed and recognised, stressing that “we are not here for a mere partnership. We are here to supply and install world-class Haemodialysis equipment, test-run them, train people on how to use the sophisticated equipment for enhanced performance. We are here to offer a total package by providing quality and sustainable patient care and the tools to manage clinical operations through comprehensive training.

    “Others are assisting BOL partners with start-up of dialysis clinics in strategic underserved locations with the intent of providing impactful and safe dialysis treatment, assist and support partners in the development of nursing, technical and operational training curriculum to include on-side support of the Centre of Excellence workers and work with the Ministry of Health in the establishment  of regulations and standards of care that promote safe and effective dialysis patient treatment outcomes.”

    Atwater, who said BOL is always concerned about compliance and set standards in treating patients, likened its operations to the running of an aircraft where every part is checked and documented by competent and certified personnel before take-off.

    In addition to training and re-training, he said BOL would screen patients for early detection and treatment of kidney diseases, while its plans for the Haemodialysis Centre would be in three phases: identifying the location of the centre and procurement of equipment and consumables, treatment of patients and documentation and presentation of reports/results to see how far BOL had gone.

    The ABUAD/BOL Haemodialysis partnership is in tandem with Babalola’s vision and mission of producing highly skilled, socially and globally relevant graduates capable of applying scientific and medical knowledge to solve societal problems.

    Babalola said ABUAD, which parades an army of highly talented and professionals of international repute, is moving at a faster rate than he had contemplated, adding that because those working at the university are agents of change, it will soon catch up and overtake many of the universities established before it.

    He said: “We have started well, we have arrived and we are going up and up and up.”

     

  • Aregbesola lauds ABUAD

    Aregbesola lauds ABUAD

    • Proffers solution to herdsmen menace

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has described the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) as a model institution in Nigeria and Africa that is changing the face of education.

    Aregbesola who visited the university on Thursday said ABUAD is living up to its mission to provide quality education and make a positive impact in Nigeria, Arica and the whole world.

    The Osun Governor was received by ABUAD Chancellor/Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, his wife, Mrs. Modupe Babalola, Vice Chancellor, Prof Michael Ajisafe, other principal officers and senior officials of the university.

    The august visitor also inspected the new ABUAD Teaching Hospital which he noted would change the face of healthcare delivery in the country.

    Aregbesola praised Babalola for his quest to salvage the education sector through the ABUAD vision.

    He said: “ABUAD is a university with vision and mission, the university was established to change the face of education in Nigeria and Baba (Afe Babalola) is meeting the target.

    “He is giving Nigeria a good future with his project. This is a university where students are being prepared for future greatness and Baba is not only interested in students getting certificates but giving them an assured future.”

    Delivering a lecture, Aregbesola said the herdsmen uprising could be addressed by adopting modern methods of animal husbandry.

    This, he said, can restrict the animals for proper monitoring.

    He said: “I am not trying to justify killings or trying to say that the Fulanis should dominate Nigeria, but what I am saying is that Nigeria has failed to be technologically and innovatively advanced due to bad leadership.”

    “As we speak now, there are no green grasses in any part of Europe and they produced cattle Africa cannot even boast of.

    “They prepared their pasture, foliage and fodders during the six months of rainy season and kept to feed their cattle during the dry season.

    “The cattle are restricted within the ranches and I believe that if some nations could be thinking like this, Nigeria has no reason not to toe the same line.

    “We must turn this situation into huge economic opportunities for our people,” he said.

    In the Southwest, some of the farmers are still using the old and primitive hoes and cutlasses for farming.

    “This is the more reason why many of these peasant farmers can’t stand straight as 60. Even many of them look aged and their hands deformed and body diseased.”