[citation needed] He attended the Sudan Interior Mission Day School, Mopa and Titcombe College, Egbe, both in Kogi State.
[citation needed] Ajayi's academic career was overshadowed by his highly rated Ph.D. dissertation in wildlife management and was completed at the University of Ibadan in 1974.
[1] Ajayi Joined the University of Ibadan as an assistant Training Fellow in Wildlife and Range Management at the Department of Forestry in 1968.
He moved up the academic ladder after his doctoral training and In 1980, Ajayi became the First African Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Ibadan.
Ajayi was team leader of an expert group, which produced the Action Plan for Conservation of renewable natural resources in Nigeria.