Background
Segun Adewale was born in Lagos.
Businessman philanthropist student
Segun Adewale was born in Lagos.
He attended University Of Ibadan, Oyo State where he earned his B.Sc degree in geography in 1990 and a master"s degree in public administration from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, in 1995.
He also obtained the International Air Transport Association (International Air Transport Association) Montreal Certificate in 1999 and a Diploma in Virgin Atlantic Airways (United Kingdom) in 2009. In 1997, Segun Adewale founded his own company, Aeroland Travel Limited, a business travel management, Air charter and Aviation training company. 1 Retail Agency in Nigeria.
He is currently the Chairman of Aeroland Group, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Skyrace Nigeria Limited, the Chairman, Board Of Trustees Segun Adewale Foundation for Community Development.
He was the sole representative from Nigeria in the Virgin Atlantic/GTMC Training Institute. He is the National Vice Chairman, National Association of Travel Agent of Nigeria (NANTA).
Aside the business angle, Segun is a Deacon at Word of Faith Ministry (aka Winners Chapel). He also holds the title of Otunba Bobajiro of Egbeda Land, from Alimosho, Lagos.
Early Political In 2007, Segun Adewale ran for the Lagos State House Of Assembly on the Labour Party ticket, but his name was removed from the ballot paper just before the election.
He defected from the Labour party to the Alliance for Democracy for some months before defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011 and ran for the Federal House of Representative, Alimosho Federal Constituency, but lost the election to Solomon Adeola of the Action Congress OF Nigeria. The election was marred by violence. As a philanthropist, he has contributed to over 40 community projects amongst which are the construction of Mini-Bridge in Meiran, Isei-Oshun in 2011 and he has sponsored over 20 students on full scholarship to different tertiary institutions.
