Shofola is a Legal Practitioner with years of experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance support for major corporates. He holds a Bachelor of Laws, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999. He started his corporate career as a Legal Officer at Stallion Property & Development Company, a Joint Venture company of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Oando Plc., and at various times in his career provided Legal, Compliance and Secretarial services at Intercontinental Properties, Siemens Nigeria, Access Bank Plc, and First Bank of Nigeria.
At FirstBank, Shofola was Assistant Company Secretary, and serviced the Board of the Bank, and subsidiaries within the FirstBank Group. He was a member of the inaugural stream of FirstBank’s Senior Management Development Program (SMDP01). He is currently the Company Secretary/Legal Adviser for the Development Bank of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria.