I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in pure and applied botany from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. During my first degree, I focused on the use of Allium sativum as biopesticide in the control of fusarium wilt affecting tomato plants, while during my masters I focused on the responses of Hibiscus sabdariffa to phytohormones. I proceeded to Rhodes University , South Africa where I obtained my PhD in Environmental Biotechnology. My PhD research was based on the use of plant-fungal mutualism as a strategy for the bioremediation of hydrocarbon polluted soils.