Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) is a private university located in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. It was established in 2009 by Nigeria's legal icon-Aare Afe Babalola SAN CON LL.D FNIALS, FCI.Arb. The Founder's vision is to establish a world-class centre of excellence in knowledge, character, sports and vocational development, so as to produce sound and agile professionals. He dreams of producing proactive leaders and achievers who would be self-reliant, honest, generous, considerate and ‘sportsman'-like.The MissionAfe Babalola University is a result-oriented and highly rated private University, established to produce multi-talented and socially relevant graduates capable of applying their knowledge to provide solutions to social problems. ABUAD is already gaining international recognition and acclaim as one of the fastest growing and prestigious Universities in Africa. The University boasts of one of the most comprehensive and practice-focused law degree programs in Nigeria. It has also recently been granted the privileges to run a specialized degree program in Social Justice.ABUAD provides a serene campus, employs case study method of teaching and fosters cutting edge research. The University has a team of highly qualified scholars some of whom have advanced degrees from national and international leading centres of education, such as Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen and London Universities, and from other parts of Europe and North America.