Tpl (Dr.) Moses Olubunmi Ajayi was born on the 9th of December 1948 to late Pa Isaac Adeyemo Ajayi and late Madam Alice Adedigba Ajayi (Nee Adegbile), both natives of Iree, Osun State, Nigeria. He attended St. Paul’s Primary School in Ibadan, Baptist High School in Iree, and Olivet Baptist High School in Oyo following which he attended the University of Ibadan from where he graduated in June 1971 with a BSc in Geography. He briefly worked as a teacher at his alma mater, Baptist High School, Iree before he was appointed
a pupil surveyor-in-training in the survey department of the Federal Ministry of Works.

He later went to the Federal School of Surveying in Oyo. He obtained his master’s degree in Town and Country Planning from the University of Sydney, Australia. He returned to Nigeria in December 1974 to his job in the Federal Survey Department and was later transferred to the Federal Ministry of Economic Development as a Planning Officer. 
In 1976, he left the civil service to join Onakanmi & Partners as a Planning and Development Executive. He left in 1979 to start his own Town Planning consultancy firm, MOLAJ Consultants, which he ran successfully until his transition to glory.

Over the course of 40 years of private consultancy, he worked with various National and International organizations such as The World
Bank, The United Nations, and Mobil Nigeria to name a few. He was very involved in the field of Town Planning in Nigeria at the local, state, and federal levels.

He was Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP); National President of the NITP; and later was elected President of the Association of Professional bodies in Nigeria (APBN). In 2014, the European American University conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Arts in Public Administration and Governance. 

He married late Elizabeth Bolanle Ajayi (Nee Ogunro) on July 31, 1976, and they were blessed with 4 children. After 25 years, late Mrs. Elizabeth Bolanle Ajayi passed on to glory. Afterwards, he married Mrs. Yetunde Ajayi (Nee Agbaje-Williams) and they were blessed with a daughter. 

He was passionate about his hometown Iree and served as the president of the Iree Progressive Union (IPU) – now IPA (Iree Progressive Association). He was instrumental in creating a satellite
campus of the Polytechnic Ibadan in Iree, which ultimately became Iree polytechnic. He lived a highly productive and impactful life of service to GOD, his family, his home town, his chosen profession, his country – Nigeria, humanity and, the Baptist Church – especially with his dedication and exceptional contribution to the architectural planning and construction of the Baptist Convention Camp Ground in Lagos. Leveraging his widespread influences, goodwill, skillset, funds, and manpower, he was highly instrumental to the successful inauguration and execution of the annual Agape Love Medical Missions to Iree, Nigeria which started in 2017.