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Chief Stephen Binuyo Adewumi (21 July 1927 – 02 April 2005) Known as Lawyer S.B Adewumi was a prominent Lawyer in Ibadan city, Oyo State. He hails from Idi Arere/ Isale Ijebu area in Ibadan. He was a High chief from the Ogefon family and was the son of Chief Yenusa Adewumi Ogefon a prominent businessman and landowner from Ibadan.
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION He attended St David's School, Ibadan in 1933 and later gained admission to Grammar School Ibadan and completed his secondary education at Igbobi College, Yaga, Lagos before traveling to study Law in the United Kingdom in 1949. He was admitted to Trinity College Dublin in 1949 for Legal studies and in 1950 he obtained the intermediate LL.B (Lond) and, in 1950 he was admitted to University of Kingston Upon-Hull and obtained LLB finals in June 1952. He married his wife Christianah Olabisi Nee Ekunseitan, a trained Nurse and daughter of a prominent publisher in Ilesha, and the first granddaughter of the illustrious Lufadeju Royal Family in 1955 in Hull, United Kingdom. He was called to the Honorable Society of Gray's Inn of Courts in 1953 and passed his Bar Finals in June 1953 (utter Barrister by the Society of Grays Inn on the 23th June 1953 in the High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division for the Trinity Sittings).
CAREER On returning to Nigeria, he enrolled as a Solicitor and Advocate in the Supreme Court of Justice in Lagos in 1953 and received several awards including the Nigeria Bar Association Gold Award. He worked briefly in the then Western Regional Government and later seconded as the Secretary of Ibadan City Council for period of years. He later opted to continue his career in private practice and was involved in numerous land layouts in Ibadan and other cities in the then, Western region and later in Oyo State. On the death of his father Yenusa Adewumi Ogefon, he became the head of the Adewumi Ogefon family and installed as the Ibadan Chief on the Balogun lineage in 1973. He climbed the chieftaincy line to become the Asipa Balogun of Ibadan land (fourth in line to the Olubadan of Ibadan) in 1999 until his death in 2005.