Prof.

BADEJO Adedayo Adekunle 

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Prof Adedayo Adekunle BADEJO had his B.Sc. M.Sc. and PhD (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering) in Civil Engineering from the University of Ibadan. He began his teaching and research career as Assistant Lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in 2005 and rose to the position of Professor (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering) in 2023. Prof Badejo’s area of expertise is Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. His current research is focused on nature-based wastewater treatment techniques, design and construction of non-mechanized treatment plant using locally available macrophytes, determining the assimilative capacity of the receiving water bodies and assessing the spatio-temporal levels of pollution parameters around waste disposal facilities. He is a TUT (Pretoria, South Africa) Fellow and has won two TETFUND and one NWRCBNet grant. He has distinguished himself as a worthy member of the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and the University. He is the current Dean, College of Engineering; Coordinator, Water Resources Capacity Building Network, Southwest Zone and Resource person for the development of CCMAS for undergraduate programmes and resource verification exercises to various universities by the National Universities Commission. He is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and a COREN registered Engineer with over 60 published articles in reputable national/international journals and refereed conference proceedings in his area of expertise. Prof Badejo is married to Mrs. Oluwatomilayo O. Badejo and they are blessed with children.

(a) Ph.D. Civil Engineering 2010

(b) M.Sc. Civil Engineering 2004

(c) B.Sc. (Hons.) Civil Engineering Second Class Honours (Upper Division) 2000

  • Municipal Wastewater treatment using sequential Activated Sludge Reactor and Vegetated Submerged Bed Constructed Wetland planted with Vetiveria Zizanioides (Completed)
  • Municipal Wastewater Treatment using Constructed Wetlands Planted with locally available Macrophytes (Phragmites australis and Vetiveria zizanioides)(Completed)
  • Auto-purification response of Ogunpa river, Ibadan to wastewater discharge              (In Progress)
  • Wastewater removal efficiency of various locally available macrophytes using Vegetated Submerged Constructed Wetlands (In Progress)

i. TETFUND 2025 Research Projects Intervention for the
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State 2025
ii. TETFUND 2018-2022 Research Projects Intervention for the
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (Batch B) 2022
iii. National Water Resources Capacity Building Network (NWRCBNet)
Southwest; Grant on Nature Based Solutions for Water 2020
iv. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Tshwane University of Technology,
Pretoria, South Africa 2014 – 2015

Dean COLENG from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028

Corporate member, Nigerian Society of Engineers (Reg. No. 18025) 2007
Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (RC 15718) 2008

Among his Publications are:

  1. Adegbola Alabi ONIPEDE, Adedayo Adekunle BADEJO, Adebola Adebayo ADEKUNLE(2016)Sediment Quality Assessment of Oke-Itoku River, Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology: A driving force for sustainable development tagged COLENG 2016, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, pg. 264-270. Ed. Prof. TMA Olayanju.
  2. Adegbola Alabi ONIPEDE, Adebola Adebayo ADEKUNLE, Adedayo Adekunle BADEJO, (2016) Engineering Properties of Textile Contamination Sediment: A Case Study Of Oke-Itoku River, Abeokuta Nigeria. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on SET: A driving force for sustainable development tagged COLENG 2016, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, pg. 373-382. Ed. Prof. TMA Olayanju.
  3. Badejo Adedayo A, Ndambuki Julius M, Kupolati William K, Ekeade Olukunle B, Okunrounmu Oluwamuyiwa A (2015) Evaluation of the Biogas Productivity Potentials of Domestic and Agricultural Waste in a Tertiary Institution. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia USA, pg.474-483. Ronald L. Mersky, Ph.D., P.E.
  4. Badejo Adedayo A, Ndambuki Julius M, Kupolati William K, Adekunle Adebola A and Adekoya Olusola O (2015) Applicability of ‘Pure Water’ Sachet In Asphalt for Sustainable Environment. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia USA, pg.880-889. Ronald L. Mersky, Ph.D., P.E.
  5. Badejo AA, Ndambuki JM and Kupolati (2014) Performance of anaerobic digester-constructed wetlands system for brewery wastewater treatment. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Environment and Water Resource Management Gaborone, Botswana, 23-28. Ed. Dr. Gagoitseope Mmopelwa
  6. Badejo A. A, Coker A. O. and Sridhar M. K. C. (2011) Tertiary Hospital Wastewater Treatment using Reed Bed Technology Planted with Vetiveria nigritana Benth and Phragmites karka Proceedings of the Environmental Management Conference, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, pg. 497-503. Ed. Prof. O. Matins

Akadiri, S.A., Dada, P.O.O, Badejo, A.A, Adeosun, O.J, Adeyeri O.E., A.T., Faloye, O.T, Laokhongthavorn., L and Kamchoom, V. (2026) Comprehensive Evaluation of Vertical Sub-Surface Flow Constructed Wetlands with Aquatic Plants on Water Quality of Raw and Phyto-remediated Poultry-Aquaculture Wastewater: A Principal Component Analysis. Biology, 15,823, https://doi.org/10.3390/biology15110823.

Ademolu, O.O., Ganiyu, S.A., Olurin O.T., Ajayi, K.D., Adetoyinbo, A.A, Alabi A.A., and Badejo, A.A. (2025) Investigation of Groundwater Potential Zones Using Integrated Geophysical Techniques at Apaken Area, Sagamu, Southwestern Nigeria. Nigeria Journal of Theoretical and Environmental Physics. Published by the Nigerian Institute of Physics 3 (3) 15-37.

Badejo, A.A., Nkeshita, F.C., Olanipekun, A.J., Bada, B.S., David, A.O., Ndambuki, J.M. and Kupolati, W.K. (2025) Evaluating the performance of an electrocoagulation process using response surface methods for textile wastewater treatment. Engineering and Technology Journal, 43 (9), 766-774. Published by University of Technology-Iraq https://doi.org/10.30684/etj.2025.161784.1974

Adedayo A. Badejo, David O. Omole, Julius M. Ndambuki, Williams K. Kupolati (2017) Municipal wastewater treatment using sequential activated sludge reactor and vegetated submerged bed constructed wetland planted with Vetiveria zizanioides. Ecological Engineering 99, 525–529. Published by Elsevier. (USA).

Adedayo A. Badejo, Adebola A. Adekunle, Olusola O. Adekoya, Julius M. Ndambuki, Kehinde W. Kupolati, Babatunde S Bada and David O. Omole (2017) Plastic Waste as Strength Modifiers in Asphalt for a Sustainable Environment. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 9 (2), 173-177, published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis, (United Kingdom).

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