He studied at the University of Lagos, and the University of Iowa. He obtained an MA from Waterford Institute of Technology. His poetry has been published in over 400 on-line and print journals, and an Irish-Canadian anthology, Landing Places, Edison Literary Review, and the African American Review. He was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize by The Swarthmore Literary Review, The Taylor Trust, and Jack Magazine. And He received the Yeats' Pierce Loughran Scholar Award in 2008.