Career
The anti-military and pro-democracy, Ola Oni hails from Ekiti State southwestern Nigeria where he was born but based in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria. Ebenezer Babatope"s book, "Student Power in Nigeria" (1956-198), tells the life of Ola Oni. He died on December 22, 1999 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
After his demise, he was immortalized and a social research center, Comrade Ola Oni Centre Foreign Social Research was named after him.