Professor Philip Olusola Olatunji was born on May 20th,1950 in Abalabi, under the then Abeokuta Division of Ogun State. He was born into a humble background with an educated father and an uneducated but intelligent and hard-working mother, in a polygamous setting. He is the fifth of his mother’s six children. His father was educated enough to be a president of a Customary Court, a Produce Inspector, and a Lay Preacher, and so possessed the potential for financing the primary education of his children. Philip had his primary education in Abalabi Central School from 1957 to 1962 and Secondary Modern School from 1963 to 1965. This was made easy through the free education legacy of the Chief Obafemi Awolowo.