Olanrewaju Fagbohun

Fagbohun, was on Nov 28 2019 honored by the President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari with the National merit award on Productivity - National Productivity order on merit. The event took place at the NAF Conference Center and Suites, Kado, Abuja.

In 2010, he joined the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, NIALS as senior academic staff. At the institute, he taught Advanced Legal Methods and Research as well as Advanced Environmental Law and Policy. He had served on different editorial board including the NIALS Journal of Environmental Law, Nigerian Current Law Review and LASU Journal of Law where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Prior to his appointment as the 8th substantive Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, he was the Director of Studies, DS and Director of Research in the university and Chike Idigbe Distinguished Professor of Law at the NIALS.

Fagbohun began his academic career in January 1991 as an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University where he rose to the rank of reader and associate professor of law in 2004 before he later became a full professor of Environmental law in 2008. He is one of the academics that contributed to the development of the curriculum for the teaching of environmental law in Nigerian universities.

Olanrewaju was born at Akesan, Alimosho, a local government area of Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria. He attended Local Authority Primary School at Agege and Ikeja Grammar School, Oshodi, Lagos where he obtained the West African Senior School Certificate. Thereafter, he obtained a Bachelor of Law, LL.B degree in 1987 from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. Following the completion of the compulsory one year youth service program in 1989, he attended the Nigerian Law School before he was Call to the bar. He later proceeded to the University of Lagos where he earned a master's degree in law and later returned to Obafemi Awolowo University where he received a doctorate degree in law. During the doctoral program, he received a Postgraduate diploma in International Tax Law from Robert Kennedy College, Switzerland.

Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun (born 19 October 1966) is a Nigerian academic, author, investor, professor of environmental law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (S.A.N). He is the 8th substantive vice-chancellor of Lagos State University. He was appointed by the governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode to succeed professor John Obafunwa, a Nigerian pathologist whose tenure ended on 31 October 2015. His appointment was lauded by the Lagos State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The association through the chapter chairman pledge their full support for good administration.