He has served at the high levels of academic leadership in the University, the most recent of which are Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations (2012-2014) and Director of International Office and Linkages (2012-2014), which he had also been privileged to have pioneered as Coordinator in 2007. Until 2012, he was the pioneer Deputy Director of the African Leadership Development Centre (ALDC) in the institution. Folarin is currently Chairman of the Covenant University Media and Corporate Affairs Committee as well as Chairman of the Editorial and Media Board of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, he is also wrtiter at studentshare.net.