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Profile of Professor Sola Fajana

A prince was born into a royal family within the Okinbaloye ruling house in Aramokoland in 1958, he later became a professor and also a pastor. He is thus accurately described as the man with three Ps (prince, professor, pastor). His life and work values are: effectiveness, equity, fairness, integrity, justice, and humanism. His personal attributes are reflected in the following personal outlook or life mission statement, which is: “to make maximum impact on humanity through the building of capacities using inspirational, connectivity, diversity management, creativity and innovative, emotional management, team building and risk management skills”.

Professor Isaac Olusola Fajana, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D was educated at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, 1978-1981), the University of Lagos (1983-1991), and University of Sussex (1987-1988). He joined the services of the University of Lagos as an Assistant Lecturer in 1982 and rose through the ranks to attain the highest in his chosen profession in 2002. He is Professor of Labour Economics and Human Resource Management with research interests in employment relations, labour market processes, entrepreneurship and human resource management. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (FCIPM), Fellow of the Academy of Management Nigeria (FAMN), Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management (FNIM), and Fellow, Institute of Entrepreneurs (FIoE). He is a Council Member of the Nigerian Industrial and Employment Relations Association (NIERA).

Fajana was employed as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Lagos in 1982 with the Second Class Upper Division B.Sc. degree, one of a few to enjoy that privilege; the position attracts the minimum of a master’s degree effective 1983. He rose through the academic ladder of lectureship, senior lectureship and reader, and became a Professor in 2002. He has served as Programme Supervisor, Hall Master, Assistant Co-ordinator (MBA Programme), Postgraduate Coordinator, Sub-Dean of Faculty, Head of Department, Faculty Dean and member of Senate at different points in his university career.

Notable contributions to university life include developmental grants and HR instrumentations commissioned by the University of Lagos. He was instrumental to the grants process that secured the USAID/KSU/UNILAG project in 2006. The N173,000,000 ($0.5m) grant which was resident at Kansas State University was awarded to his faculty and used to assist the University to successfully transform its business administration programmes. In the same year 2006, Professor Fajana was able to design staff evaluation metrics for the use of the university. This set of instruments were inadvertently unpatented, and very soon had diffused to the rest of the Nigerian university system free of charge. In a sense, this was a way in which the University of Lagos had played the big brother in the Nigerian university system.

Professor Sola Fajana engaged very actively with the National Universities Commission on matters of quality assurance, university governance and associated capacity-building on such matters, effective 2005 to present. From 2006 to 2007, Professor Fajana was television producer and anchor of a human resource management discussion programme on NTA Channel 10, tagged labour-management today. He was Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Lagos Branch for five years (1996 to 2001); during which period he was actively engaged in the analysis of the state of the Nigerian nation. He is keenly and prominently engaged in consultancy services in the public and private sectors globally.

He has served as external examiner and or member of visitation panels to several Universities in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Netherlands and was on International Accreditation visits to these countries. He has also visited the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Denmark, Togo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, and Rwanda on several academic and professional conferences. During the coronavirus pandemic of 2019, Professor Fajana has participated in virtual academic and professional webinars around the world.

In his academic and professional career, Professor Fajana has jointly or singly supervised over 140 masters’ theses and 11 PhDs. He pioneered the application of stochastic processes into the settlement of industrial disputes in 1989, and this approach has attracted several academic disciples including Dr Francis Anyim. Professor Fajana received an award from the National Universities Commission in 2012 for co-supervising Dr Anyim, the NUC-adjudged best PhD thesis in 2009 in the field of administration throughout the Nigerian university system. He has authored/co-authored over 150 scholarly publications in his academic and professional discipline. On Google Scholar, accessed on 01 September 2020, Professor Sola Fajana has over a cumulative 1038 citations for his foremost 68 publications.

Professor Fajana enjoyed the privilege of giving the 5th Distinguished Lecture of Mountain Top University, Ibafo (2018), and the 5th Convocation Lecture of Wesley University, Ondo (2018), and the 2018 edition of the Annual Distinguished Lecture of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria, among others. He gave the 2019 distinguished public lecture of the University of Maiduguri, in Borno State. There are several keynote addresses and lead papers presented by Professor Fajana worldwide.

Professor Fajana had at one time or the other enjoyed several scholarships and fellowships. He was Adam Thomson scholar at the University of Sussex, Brighton England in 1987/88 session. He was a guest of the American Government in 1997 on the labour exchange visitors’ programme. He participated in the Global Employment Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, in November, 2001, sponsored by the ILO. He participated in the Industrial Relations Partnership Initiative Programme at Harvard University, Boston, Rutgers University, New Jersey and the George Meany Centre, Maryland, from July to September 2003. He participated at the Teaching the Practice of Management Workshop in South Africa in 2007, the ILO Workshop on Strengthening of Labour Administration in Turin, Italy in 2007, and was a guest of the USAID at Kansas State University in 2007. He facilitated at the Higher Education Summit of the USAID in Kigali, Rwanda in 2008, and was the keynote speaker at the International Conference of the Social Sciences in Izmir, Turkey in 2009. He handled the post-validation study for Vitamin A Supplementation in 2008 for UNICEF Nigeria. At the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Nigeria, Sola Fajana had responsibility for the formulation of the Decent Work Country Programme II for Nigeria (2009). Other UN grants-aided assignments include the Global Jobs Pact (2011), and the Code of Professional Practice for Private Employment Agencies (2011). He is associated with the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) Programme of the ILO domiciled at the International Training Centre, Turin (2018), as a certified trainer. The SIYB is the ILO’s intervention to tackle the conundrum of poverty through entrepreneurship for diverse categories of people around the world. He is currently working with the ILO and the Government of Nigeria through its Ministry of Labour on the development of a national policy for industrial relations in Nigeria.

His active engagement with the International Labour Organisation in several projects, has produced several works which are available at the ILO’s website: notably, Creating Decent Work in the 21st Century, (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15484857675), on decent work country programme II (www.ilo.org/addisabba/countries-covered/nigeria/WCMS_240572/...), private employment agencies in Nigeria, industrial relations in the oil industry in Nigeria (www.ilo.org/sector/resources/ WCMS_16189/lang_en/index.html), social dialogue in the utilities sector (www.ilo.org/sector/resources/WCMS_552801/ lang_en/index.html) to mention a few. He is a certified SIYB trainer.

Professor Sola Fajana did a seven-year Vice-Chancellorship at Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU), Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria (2011-2018). He brought great visibility to the institution which in 2017 was ranked by the National Universities Commission (NUC) as number three among all the private universities in Nigeria. He worked assiduously contributing personal resources and to source for other grants, projects and good corporate governance for JABU. Professor Fajana is currently the Chairman, Planning and Implementation Committee of the Proposed Vision University, Ikogbo-Igbesa, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Professor Sola Fajana, a man of peace, is married with children and he is listed in Who is Who in Nigeria, 2009.

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