[1] Abimbola Emmanuela Fashola was born on 6 April 1965, in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, southwestern Nigeria.
She later received a certificate in Computer Science from the University of Lagos.
[4] She worked briefly as a trainee journalist at the Daily Sketch before she joined the services of the British Council in 1987 but resigned in 2006 when her husband Babatunde Fashola was nominated as the flag bearer of his party and the governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.
[7] Chief Adenusi Adeojo, her late father, held the distinction of being the inaugural Nigerian Director at Texaco, Nigeria.
Meanwhile, her mother, an Urhobo woman, formerly worked at NITEL and is now enjoying retirement.