His thesis, Tangenital wound of the head in Nigerian Soldiers, detailed his encounters with neurotraumatic patients during the Nigeria Civil War.
[1] In 1988, Adeloye was elected the president of the Neurosurgery section of the Nigerian Society of Neurological Sciences.
[1] Adeloye served as a locum consultant Neurosurgeon at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia from November to December 1987.
He then moved to Kuwait, where he headed the Neurosurgery department at Al-Adan Government Hospital from January 1988 to October 1990.
Adeloye and other expatriates were stranded due to the closure of embassies, suspension of air transport services, and severance of telecommunications.
Adeloye assisted in the evacuation of 84 Africans to Baghdad, an experience he later documented in his book, Inside Occupied Kuwait, published in 2006.
[1] Adeloye was a Rockefeller Research Fellow in Experimental Teratology at the University of Cincinnati, USA from 1972 to 1973 and a Ratanji Dalai Scholar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1973 to 1974, focusing on CNS malformations.
[1] After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Adeloye moved to Malawi under the short-term professional staff scheme of the World Health Organization in 1991.