Elisabeta Olarinde

Elisabeta Smaranda Olarinde is a Professor of Law and Vice-Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria. She has served as a law teacher, a scholar and researcher, university administrator and Legal Practitioner.

Quotes

• My appointment as Acting Vice Chancellor constantly reminds me that my great Founder wants a credible, selfless, honest leader who buys into his vision of running a university that will show Nigerians how a university should be run to pilot the affairs of the university as a Vice Chancellor.
  • [1] Speaking on her apppointment as VC of ABUAD

• Looking at the journey since we started academic works with 240 students in 2010 and being what we are today as a university, I can say without any fear of contradiction that the immediate future is very bright for us.
  • [2] Speaking on the growth of ABUAD

• Our learning process is exceedingly interactive. It involves the best Faculty around and we see ourselves competing favourably with the Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge as well as Oxford Universities among others.
  • [3] Speaking on ABUAD's learning process

• ...remind you that I am one of the pioneer staff of the university. I remember how we used to navigate our way into the thick forest inhabited by reptiles and wild animals in those days. When I juxtapose the state-of-the-art buildings, the well manicured lawns, the well-trimmed trees and shrubs as well as the well macadamized road of today with those days of little beginnings, my heart oozes with immeasurable and indescribable joy
  • [4] Speaking on the growth of ABUAD