Biography

Dr. Ridwan Olawale OLAGUNJU- IBRAHIM, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Islamic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin which he joined as an Assistant Lecturer in 2008. Since then, he has served on various departmental, faculty, and university committees. Currently, he is serving as the Faculty of Law Representative on the board of the Faculty of Engineering at the University and also as a member of the Faculty of Law Standing Committee on Professor O. O. Akinkugbe’s Annual Award for Best Student Innovator. His research interest cuts across Islamic Criminal Law, Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law of Transactions, and Islamic Legal perspective on Economic and Financial Crimes among others. He has well over 25 publications in reputable outlets spanning journals and chapters in books. He has supervised over 100 Projects of undergraduates in several Islamic Law areas. He is currently supervising 1 student each at Masters and Ph.D levels. He belongs to many distinguished professional bodies both within and outside Nigeria. He’s a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, a status he has acquired since the year 2000 upon his Call to the Nigerian Bar. To his credit, Dr. Olagunju-Ibrahim is a simultaneous translator of Arabic to English and vice versa and he fluently speaks Yoruba (his mother tongue) and Hausa languages. He is a motivational public sermonizer, legal consultant, political analyst, newspaper columnist, and fine writer reputed for Arabic and English authorship both in prose and poetry. He was the best-graduating student of Combined Law from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria in 1998. He had his Tamhidiyyah, I’dadiyyah, and Thanawiyyah (Elementary, Secondary, and Post Secondary) levels of pure Arabic and Islamic education at Darul-Ulum Arabic School, Ilorin, an affiliate of the popular Markaz of late Shaykh Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory. He had the best result at the final examinations from the school in 1991. Dr. Olagunju-Ibrahim Ridwan Olawale hails from Ede in Osun State and he is a descendant of Late Oba Abibu ‘Lagunju of Ede, the first sitting King in southwestern Nigeria to apply Islamic Law on himself, his subjects, and members of his household.