Dr. Adebayo Jonathan Adeyemo
Adebayo Jonathan ADEYEMO, was born on 11th of July, 1979, in Aramoko Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. He obtained a bachelor of Agricultural Technology in Crop, Soil and Pest Management with Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria on the 6th of December, 2003. He participated in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) after his first Degree between February 2004 and February 2005 as Corp Liaison Officer (CLO) in Okobo, Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, one of the Oil Producing States of Nigeria, a scheme organized by the Federal Government of Nigeria with a view to the proper encouragement and development of common ties among the youths of Nigeria and the promotion of national unity. His main responsibility was to liaise with the State Governments Coordinator of the scheme in the implementation of developmental projects in the Local Government Area. He started his master’s program in the Department of Crop Soil and Pest Management (Soil Management option), in 2006, and was later employed in the same Department during his master´s program as a Teaching Assistant by the University. He obtained his Master´s (M. Agric. Tech) Degree in Agricultural Technology on the 4th of July, 2008. He started his Doctoral program (DSc.) under the fellowship program sponsored by the Third World Academy of Sciences and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (TWAS/CNPq) in the Department of Soils, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in March 2009. He finished his doctoral program in February 2013.