[2] Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is an executive board member of West Africa Network for Peacebuilding and the Nigerian Women's Trust Fund.
[2] She studied Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where she started her journey in human right activism as the first female public relations officer.
[9][3] Upon returning to Nigeria after her studies at the University of Notre Dame Law School, she founded Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) in 2002, a company focused on addressing issues relating to gender-based violence and policy advocacy.
[8][1] She is a member of the Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) movement and leads the campaign for safe and secure schools in the North East Nigeria.
[11][12] She successfully represented Monica Osagie, a student at the Obafemi Awolowo University who was sexually harassed by Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, a lecturer at the department of accounting in 2018.