Abimbola Fashola


Abimbola Fashola is a former First Lady of Lagos State and spouse of Babatunde Fashola.

Early life and career

She was born on 6 April 1965, in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, southwestern Nigeria.
She was trained as secretary at the Lagoon Secretarial College in Lagos, where she obtained a diploma certificate. She later received a certificate in Computer Science from the University of Lagos.
She worked briefly as a trainee journalist at the Daily Sketch before she joined the services of the British Council in 1987 but resigned in 2006 when her husband Babatunde Fashola was nominated as the flag bearer of his party and the governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.