Professor Adenike Akinjobi was born in 1965 into the royal family of Late His Highness, Oba Mathew Bamiteko Orimogunje, the Onigogo of  Igogo Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. She had her first degree in Education and English from University of Ilorin in 1987. Her Masters in English (Language) and doctorate in Linguistics are from University of Ibadan in 1991 and 2004 respectively. She got trained in speech acoustics at the distinguished Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA in 2004 as a visiting scholar to the Department of Linguistics.

She is presently a lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ibadan where she is  currently the chairperson of University of Ibadan English Language Clinic Programmes, a project that is aimed at ameliorating the deteriorating state of the English Language in Nigeria.

She is a phonetician/phonologist, and a writer and researcher with about 60 publications, of which about 25 are books.  Her current research focus is on two major areas: the description of Nigerian English phonology and social network interactive learning, which is a remarkable trend in today’s education. She administers three active academic forums on Facebook, a social networking site – English Language Clinic forum, Scholars of English Linguistics’ Forum  and Nigerian Phonologists’ Forum.  These forums have large numbers of members, especially English Language Clinic Forum with about 60,000 active members. Adenike Akinjobi is an English speech trainer, a jingle/documentary voice and a documentary and academic film director and producer.

She is a public speaker and public affairs commentator, a remarkable motivational speaker who has delivered numerous speeches at events, both academic and social.