Background
He was born on June 26, 1967 at Eti Osa local government area of Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.
He was born on June 26, 1967 at Eti Osa local government area of Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.
University of Liverpool. London School of Economics.
Headquartered in Lagos State, Nigeria. He had his primary education in Lagos state and later obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1983 from Federal Government College, Odogbolu before he proceeded to the University of Liverpool where he received a bachelor"s degree in law in 1988 and later obtained a master"s degree in law from London School of Economics in 1989, the same year he returned to Nigeria to trained at the Nigerian Law School and received his call to the bar in 1990. He began his career with his family law firm, K. O. Tinubu and Company, where he specialized in corporate and petroleum law.
In 1994, he co-founded Ocean and Oil Limited, an oil company located in Nigeria.
On December 2001, they made a purchase of Italian Agip Petrol’s 60 percent stake in Agip Nigeria Plc, for $74 million, a purchase that was objected by shareholders. Adewale and his team later branded the Oando, plc having been the largest shareholder at Gaslink, an industrial gas supply company.
His significant contribution made Oando the first African company to be enlisted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of more than three billion South African rand. Forbes Africa magazine described him as "the Nigerian Oil Baron Buying up America".