Health department
Tunji Sowande had his early education at the CMS Anglican Grammar School in Lagos and the Yaba Higher College, where he obtained a Diploma in Pharmacy in about 1940. He worked with the Public Health department in Lagos as a Dispensing Pharmacist for a number of years. His contemporary being the late Adeyinka Oyekan, who was to become the Oba (King) of Lagos. He is also said to have set up a private Pharmacy business alongside the said Oyekan