Olubola Babalola

Professor Olubola Babalola is a Nigerian quantity surveyor and academic and researcher. She is a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where she has taught since 1993 and has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management.

Quotes

• Poetry has not been given a pride of place in secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
  • [1] Speaking about the waning interest in poetry

• The school would ensure that practising members who had not registered with the institute but were domiciled in the faculty would be registered to enhance the growth of the NIOB.
  • [2] Speaking at the NIOB induction

"How I became Africa’s first female professor in quantity surveying" (2016)

"How I became Africa’s first female professor in quantity surveying", The Guardian (June 6, 2016)

• As a quantity surveyor, honesty, transparency and probity should be their watchword and they should be diligent in the performance of their professional duties. With all these qualities in them, sky will be their starting point and money will run after them.

• Nigeria is blessed with many untapped natural and mineral resources that can be used in the production of construction materials. The use of locally sourced materials has a multiplying effect on the Economy creation of jobs, increase in our foreign reserves and boosting of our Economy.

• My view of life is that one should get all the necessary qualifications because no one knows when they would be required and since I found myself in academics with the catchword "publish or perish". I worked hard to publish in both local and international journals in order to gain recognition in my field.