[1] He is the chief executive officer of Even-Ezra Nigeria Limited, the stable that produced an award-winning movie titled Sango in 1997.
[2][3] Obafemi Bandele Lasode was born on 4 December 1955 in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria but hails from Abeokuta, a city in Ogun State southwestern Nigeria.
[4] He attended St. Gregory's College at Obalende in Lagos State, where he obtained the West African Senior School Certificate.
[5] He later obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business administration from Kogod School of Business, Washington, D.C.[6] Thereafter, he obtained a Master of Science degree in Communication art from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
[8] He produced the African music programme Afrika in Vogue on Radio Nigeria 2, which ran from the first quarter of 1989 for a year.