Joshua Ade Tuyo was a prominent Nigerian businessman from Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
He spent two dozen years as a clerical staff for the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the ministry of Commerce, and retired in 1953.
During his clerical years, he married an Ijebu woman who was born into a trading family in Onitsha.
His wife took to trading while Ade was familiarizing himself with office work, as this was the dominant gender course taken by many Nigerian households during the pre-colonial and early colonial period.
In late 1949, Mrs Ade Tuyo lost most of her trading goods in a robbery operation.