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Diverse circumstances have offered many opportunities and privileges for individuals’ professional, economic, and socio-political growth. Many people have been endowed with wealth and other treasures, including good names, only for them to ruin these heritages later. While some prominent individuals had risen from grass to grace, others rose on solid templates to higher grace. This article uses a biographical sketch of the life, strides, and forays of Chief Rasheed Abiodun Gbadamosi, an illustrious son of the entire country. To this end, the study examines the versatilities and multi-dimensional socio-cultural, political, and economic dispositions of the biographee. The paper maintains that Chief R. A. Gbadamosi was able to utilise the opportunity of his prestigious background to make history for himself. Against this background, this study adopts the historical methods of data collation, relying on media reports, internet materials, and extant literature.

Gbadamosi, Socio-Economic Background, Career Growth, Lagos History,