Afe Babalola Quotes
born 1929
Afe Babalola was in born 30 October 1929. He is a Nigerian lawyer and founder of Afe Babalola University in Nigeria.
Also known as: Afe babalola
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If a man is not guilty, he would wear the gown of innocence.
I can say without any fear of contradiction that being alive beyond 90 is the design of God and not my design.
The only business in this country today which is lucrative is politics.
Manufacturers will continue to remain slaves to banks.
It is the person who has the money that will win.
What we need in this country is quality education. When you have quality education, you have power and when you have power, every other thing submerges.
You look at my own life history, you see that philosophy runs throughout my body.
I live among the people and should know how I'm governed.
The 1999 Constitution is, in large measure, responsible for the problems we have in Nigeria today.
You cannot just come from nowhere and become president, become governor, become member of house; these are transactional business men.
Our problem in this country is leadership in Africa. People believe that when they come out of university, they should go and work or alternatively, go into politics.
I do not like to leave my work and engage in partisan politics.
I grew up on the farm, I was making 100 to 200 heaps before I went to school every day and I found myself to be a bridge between primitiveness and civilization.
Can you make 26 per cent profit in a year? Things don't work like that in other climes.
We have two-digit interest rates charged by banks today. Who is that businessman that will make a profit after paying 27 per cent on facilities he took from a bank?
They have made politics to become so lucrative that the best thing to do is to join politics. Politics has become the only lucrative business in Nigeria, not manufacturing.
Well, we are governed by a Constitution and under the Constitution, a man is presumed innocent until he is found guilty.
The National Judicial Council has the right to recall the judges accused of corruption because the court of law has not found them guilty.
Im not a politician. I have never picked the membership card of any political party and have never contested in any election.
I thank God, who has made it possible for me to live beyond 90 years.