He attended Igbobi College Lagos and obtained a bachelor"s and master"s degrees in Law from the University of Lagos He began his law career at Oditah Adebiyi & Company in Lagos as a research coordinator before he joined the services of the University of Lagos as assistant lecturer.
He rose to the position of a senior lecturer on October 1999 and later became the sub-dean of the faculty of law on October 2000. On May 2001 he was appointed Special Assistant to Bola Tinubu on Legal Affairs and in 2003 he became the Governor"s Senior Special Assistant on Legal Matters. He served in that capacity for 4 years until he was appointed Special Adviser on Taxation and Revenue to Babatunde Fashola who succeeded Bola Tinubu in 2007.
On May 2007, he was appointed Attorney General.
