Dr. Ridwan Olawale Olagunju-Ibrahim

Dr. Ridwan Olawale OLAGUNJU- IBRAHIM, is an Associate Professor 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 such as Level Adviser, Exam Officer, Liason Officer between the faculty and the COMSIT respectively. He has served as the faculty of law representative on the board of the Faculty of Engineering and he is currently serving as the Faculty of Law Representative on the board of the Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences 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, Islamic Legal perspective on Economic and Financial Crimes, Inheritance and Succession under Islamic law, Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic Banking and Finance among others. He has well over 30 publications in reputable outlets spanning through journals, chapters in books and conference proceedings. He has supervised well over 200 Projects of undergraduates in several Islamic Law areas. He is currently supervising a number of students at both 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 in addition to Arabic and English. He is a re-known weekly Chief Imam at a notable central mosque in Ilorin, Kwara State, 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. He was former chairman of a large community where his personal residence is located (Idi-Ogede Area, Olunlade axis, Ilorin-Kwara State). He is the current secretary general and vice secretary general of Darul-Ulum Arabic School, Ilorin-Kwara State and Markaz Alumni Association worldwide respectively. 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 the entire southwestern Nigeria to apply Islamic Law on himself, his subjects, and on members of his household.