'Charity begins at home' - Mixed reactions as Afe Babalola donates £10 million to UK University

Nigerian lawyer and founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti, Afe Babalola has provoked outrage on social media for giving King's College, London, a donation of 10 million pounds to open a learning center.

He claims that in order to allow young Africans to access education and possibilities which they would otherwise not be able to have, the Afe Babalola African Centre for Transnational Education will be established with the help of the donation he made.

Some social media users were not pleased with the move and criticized the top Nigerian advocate for spending so much money abroad despite the country's poor educational system.

Read comments here:

OmoEyero: "Charity ought to begin at home. We need such support in Ekiti. Why going abroad when we are lacking such at home???. Baba, Nigeria made you not London!"

adedstv: ":This is reckless!!!! What kind of food are we eating sef?!"

jhybolar: "Oh Nigerians who bewitched you ? Pouring water into ocean, collecting school fees of #750k per session from Nigerians and donating £10m to Britain's school."

chimopol: "Money wey we no see here naim Baba go waste for London. I am amaze at the rationale behind the donation that I term reckless."

Ollan26: "Only in Nigeria will the poor tell the rich how to spend his money. Do you know how much donation he received for ABUAD from oversee? Dear Mr too know Cultivate the habit of giving not everytime all about what you can receive."

iaogundele: "Tell us jare so that we are equipped with facts and fiction ..afterall you are part of the governing council ."

diplosoft: "The ureje bridge leading to this man's university collapsed completely before the government came in to fix it. The road that leads to his school and industrial park is a single lane. Misplaced priorities"

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