Chairman
Professor Sola Fajana
Sola Fajana, B.Sc. (Ife), M.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D. (Lagos) is Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Lagos. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (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 Labour and Employment Relations Association.
He was television producer and anchor of a human resource management discussion programme on NTA Channel 10, from 2006 to 2007. He was Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, UNILAG Branch from 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 community service globally in the public and private sectors.
He has served as external examiner to several Universities in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and was on international accreditation visits to many of these countries. He is involved in the assessment of professorial candidates as well as the screening of candidates for vice-chancellorship in the Nigerian university system. He served on the visitation panels to the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in 2016 and the Ondo State University of Science and Technology in 2017. 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. He is a consultant to the United Nations on labour and social matters.
Professor Sola Fajana is on the Governing Board of Landmark College, Ikorodu, and Thames Valley College, Shagamu. He was VC Designate, proposed Zion University, Akure, (2006-2011). He did a seven-year vice-chancellorship at Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria (2011-2018). He brought great visibility to the institution which today is ranked by the National Universities Commission (NUC) as the number three among all the private universities in Nigeria. He is currently the Pro Chancellor Designate of the Proposed Vision University at Ikogbo, Igbesa.
Professor Sola Fajana, married with children, is listed in Who is Who in Nigeria, 2009.