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ARE AFE BABALOLA: THE PRODUCER Our focus is on one of the best legal luminary in Nigeria who is not tired of contributing his best to the growth of the country at 88. We thought it wise to celebrate this living legend who has not only produce himself in the legal profession but has went ahead to produce others in the profession to the peak of their careers. He had a very modest beginning he stopped his education at Primary Six and every other thing he did thereafter was by private studies. He was going to farm like most other children in his time. The children of those days derived a lot of pleasure going to the farm. He enjoyed good food and play. He enjoyed them and thought that was the end of the world so much so that he did not know that there was anything outside the farm.  In his words “Chief I.A. Olowu convinced my father that I should go to school. I did not initially like the idea as all my attention was concentrated on the farm. I thought that was the be...

Born as Okechukwu Emmanuel Wali on the 29 th October, 1958 in Rumualogu, Akpor in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. He began his primary education at the Port-Harcourt Township School and completed it at St. Paul’s Primary School Diobu, Port Harcourt. After obtaining his First School Leaving Certificate in 1973, (No thanks to the civil war that kept him away from school for three years, 1967-1969) he enrolled at the Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Borokiri, Port- Harcourt, where he obtained his West African School Certificate in 1978. Upon completion of his secondary education, which he topped with the higher school certificate (H.S.C) obtained in 1980 at Baptist High School, Port Harcourt, Okey Wali travelled abroad to attend the prestigious University of Buckingham, United Kingdom and graduated with Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.Hons) in 1983. He returned home for the mandatory one-year vocational training at the Nigerian Law school, Lagos, where he ...