[2][3] Lawal's primary and secondary education was in Nigeria.
She also has a bachelor's degree in Creative Arts from the University of Lagos.
[1] Lawal's acting career started professionally in 2009 after featuring in the Nigerian TV series Living in Lagos.
[1][4] She won the Miss Lagos Carnival Pageant and in the same year, she got a role to feature as Shoshanna in the Nigerian television soap opera Tinsel in 2012.
[2][1] She has also starred in short films, TV and web series such as: The men's club, Jemeji, Journey to self, The room, Out of sight, Foreign Love, amongst others.