Education
Toyin Saraki had her elementary education in Lagos, Nigeria after which she went to the United Kingdom and attended Roedean School, Brighton.
Toyin Saraki had her elementary education in Lagos, Nigeria after which she went to the United Kingdom and attended Roedean School, Brighton.
She then obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the London School of Oriental and African Studies and her L.L.M from King"s College London, both of the University of London. She returned to Nigeria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989. She is a huge advocate of the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Nigeria, which are aimed at reducing the rate of maternal and infant mortality.
She contributed largely to the establishment of the Lifestream Charity in 1993 and is a global advocate of the United Nations’s Every Woman Every Child campaign.
Toyin is on the board of the Global Foundation for the Elimination of Domestic Violence and the board of the Africa Justice Foundation. On July 28, 2015, Toyin Saraki was investigated by the anti-corruption agency the Economic An Financial Crimes Commission,for questioning over alleged shady contracts during her husband’s tenure as governor of Kwara between 2003 and 2011.
The People"s Democratic Party, the political party that her husband leaft to join the All-Progressives Congress, confirmed that its Kwara branch had petitioned the EFCC to investigate Toyin and her husband activities while Bukola Saraki was the Kwara state governor from 2003 to 2011.