Latinwo proceeded to the Junior Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom in 1974 for further military training.

In 1975, Latinwo received type rating training on the C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1980, he was appointed senior staff officer for Air Operations (Defence Headquarters) Lagos State, Nigeria.

In 1984, Group Captain Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo was nominated by the chief of air staff, Air Vice-Marshal Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, and appointed by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, the head of state as the new Military Governor of Kwara State, a position he held until August 1985.

When Major-General Ibrahim Babangida took power in 1985 as military president of Nigeria, Latinwo was appointed as the new commander (director) of the Directorate of Administration at the Nigerian Air Force Headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria, until he retired from the Nigerian Air force in March 1986.

[13] In 2008, Latinwo was appointed by President Umaru Yar'Adua as the chairman for Kwara State for the National Committee on Mineral Resources and Environmental Compliance.

[14] Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo was born in 1943 into the famously and mega rich Aliu Onaolapo Olatinwo family in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria.

[21] Group Captain S.A. Latinwo (rtd) has received several awards and decorated with many military medals,[22] including: