He was educated in Nigeria at Ahmadu Bello University and University of Ibadan and USA at Pratt Institute Graduate School, New York and University of Pittsburg Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Oyeniyi has years of experience in management, university teaching, government and research. He is an advocate of a strong relationship between purposeful development and culture. He is author of many journal articles and four books. In the course of his career he has attended several international conferences and seminars at which he presented papers. He has spent the last ten years of research and public speaking in the USA, Canada and the UK with focus on the Philosophy of Development as visiting scholar. He writes without subject boundary, tapping from his multidisciplinary education with a touch of philosophy.