About Michael Olomu, PhD (Editor-in Chief)

Olomu Michael Oluwaseun is an Assistant Director of Research at the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), a research Centre under the auspice of the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (FMIST), Nigeria. He earned his undergraduate studies in Economics and Statistics, and then bagged his master’s and PhD degrees from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, specializing in Technology Management and Industrial Innovations.

He has been a dynamic and vibrant team member in many major nationally sponsored research projects and his research interest includes Economics of innovation and development, ICT innovations and management, science policy, development studies and entrepreneurship with major focus on industrial policy and development. He was also part of the team that evaluated the apprenticeship-based policy intervention of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nigeria, the project sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada from 2019 to 2022.

He is a member and Co-chair of Committee on Data (CODATA) International Science Council and also a member of the African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence-Building Systems (AfricaLics), Nigerian Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence-Building Systems (NigeriaLics) and Young Scholars Initiative, Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) and many more. Furthermore, he is a member and a recipient of the Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA), Production and Operations Management Society, Orlando, Florida, United State of America.

His recent works emphasized fostering collaborations among government, industry and academia to advance the fields of industrial development and digital transformations. Through his multidisciplinary researches, he has contributed to the growth of the adoption and diffusion of disruptive technologies for sustainable industrial innovations and infrastructural development through policy recommendations and improvement in policy design and implementation in the industrial spheres and the dynamics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). With his vibrant academic prowess, he has produced few peer-reviewed publications, books and reports in several fields. See the link for more: 

Selected Publications

1.       Bamisaye Olutola, Critiquing the Right to Life in Nigeria: Insights from the South African Constitution (2024) (4) (1) Achievers University Law Journal

2.         Olutola, Bamisaye, and Martins Olatomide Osakinle, Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the African Charter: A Ruse or Reality? (2023) Elizade University Law Journal (vol 6) 146-170

3.         Bamisaye Olutola, Right to Political Participation Under The 1999 Constitution: A Fundamental or Inconsequential Omission? (2021) UNIZIK Journal of Public and Private Law (vol 11) 227-243

4.         Bamisaye Olutola, ‘Constitutional Safeguards for the independence of the Judiciary in African Democracies’ (Korean Association of International Association of Constitutional Law, 2020-12-31Vol.26 (3), p.297-323, ISBN: 1226-6825)

5.         Bamisaye Olawaye Olutola, ‘Youth Right to Political Participation under International Human Rights Law’ (2020, Vol. 5, Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics, P 128-146)

6.         Bamisaye Olutola ‘The Right to Peaceful Assembly in a Chaotic Democracy: An Analysis of Nigerian Law’ in Michael Addaney, Michael Gyan Nyarko, and Elsabe Boshoff (eds) Developments in Governance and Human Rights in Contemporary Africa (Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

7.         Bamisaye Olawaye Olutola & Osy Nwebo, ‘Contextualizing youth political participation in Nigeria: An assessment of legal norms’ in Governance in Nigeria post-1999: Revisiting the democratic ‘new dawn’of the Fourth Republic; Romola Adeola & Ademola Oluborode Jegede (eds) (Pretoria University Law Press 2019)

8.         Michael Addaney, Bamisaye Olutola & Kabaseke Charlotte, ‘Recent advances in environmental rights and environmental protection in the African Human Rights System: A review of the Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the SERAC v Nigeria Case’ in Michael Addaney, Michael Gyan Nyarko, and Elsabe Boshoff (eds) Developments in Governance and Human Rights in Contemporary Africa (Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

9.         Michael Addaney, Elsabe Boshoff & Bamisaye Olutola, The Climate Change and Human Rights Nexus in Africa (Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol 9.3 Summer Issue 2017, page 6)

10.       Dr. S.A. Igbinedion, Dr. A. Akintayo & Bamisaye Olutola, Human Rights Considerations in Formulating a National Security Mandate Conference Proceedings of the Nigerian Association of Law in Nigeria (2017) 342-359

11.       Anupam Jha, Bamisaye Olawaye Oyetola & Rajendra Parsad Gunputh, Boko Haram and the threat to regional peace and security: A Critical Survey 1 (2) Just Africa (2016) 79-89

12.       Bamisaye Oyetola, Deadly blow for women’s rights in Lesotho (AfricLaw,2014)