[9] He proceeded to Oyo State College of Arts and Science, Ile-Ife and obtained a Higher School Certificate/General Certificate of Education ( Advanced Level) in 1984.
The protracted human rights abuse and extra-judicial killing litigation which went up to the US Supreme Court (on appeal) was eventually settled in 2008 by the Federal Government of Nigeria under the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
[16][17] In 2009, he was appointed by the then President of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to liaise with the relevant United States authorities with regard to the Halliburton bribery investigation.
[22] He later served as a member of the Pre-Convention Management and Rappurteur Committee at the Special Convention for the Presidential Primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in June 2022.
[24] On December 4, 2022, the Governor of Ogun state, Dapo Abiodun also appointed him into his Governorship Campaign Council as Adviser to the public communication Committee.
[27][28][29] In 1992, he teamed up with Frederick Fasehun, Baba Omojola, and several other labour leaders and student activists to form the Movement for Social and Economic Justice (MOSEJ) and later became its Executive Director.
[17][28] He was also involved in the formation and activities of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), including US based United Democratic Front of Nigeria (UDFN), the Nigerian Pro-democracy Network (NPDN) and Radio save Nigeria, a short-wave pro-democracy radio station operated by the Nigerian Advocacy Group for Democracy, and Human Rights (NAGDHR) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The same actions were repeated by the military dictatorship of Sani Abacha as he was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) and routinely had his international passport seized.
[40] He also introduced the Proceeds of Crimes Bill, 2017, which made comprehensive provisions for the confiscation, forfeiture and management of properties derived from unlawful activities.
[41] However, On October 13, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari resubmitted an Executive Bill on the Proceeds of Crime which seeks, among others, to address the problem of lack of transparency and accountability associated with the management of recovered funds by anticorruption agencies in the country to the Ninth National Assembly for necessary legislative work and passage.