Babatunde Ayokunle Irukera: leading at and beyond the bar: A lawyer with an incredible knack for the issues and advocacy, a leader who makes other leaders, and an outstanding public servant and technocrat But beyond public and professional life, a politician of a new and different politics, and an accomplished family man BAI (his endeared name to most} Is a respected mentor and a prolific public interest lawyer/advocate in more ways than one raises the bar and redefines leadership One of the most apparent features of his style is an affinity, belief and commitment to young people and emerging leadership
BAI turns 53 on September 4″, 2021 In commemoration, the BAI Foundation announces the creation of the BAl Emerging Leaders’ Fellowship (BELF) The miss on of BELF is to provide training and mentoring in diverse aspects of leadership to emerging and aspiring professionals.
Successful entrants will be passionate and highly motivated undergraduates approaching final year of undergraduate students of law with a demonstrated record of self startng, excellence, vision and desire, as well as commitment to public good and contnbution to community They will participate in a program that promotes skills acquisition, character! values and a network of peer, as well as mentoring support. They will hone their skills by practical initiatives and efforts to identify challenges or opportunities for service, developing solutions, and executing same, where applicable
BELF will be endowed with a seed fund by the BAI Foundation, first at the Kog! State University, Ayingba During participation in the fellowship tuition a modest Irving expenses, travel, accommodation and other cost for associated BELF activities and possible seed investment for executing solutions adopted by the BAI Foundation, where such are consistent with the Foundations prionties BELF includes a post graduation one year of continuing n the fellowship during which participants engage in fellowstup activities and are monitored and sometimes placed by the fellowship with mentors either individually, or within available institutions/organizations.