Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is from a family of lawyers.
He is the son of Barrister Olawale and Mrs Nkechi Rhodes-Vivour. Former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and jurist Bode Rhodes-Vivour is his uncle, while the late Judge Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour is his grandfather.
He is the great-grand son to Steven Bankole Rhodes, the second ever indigenous judge appointed in Nigeria.
Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour is an MIT graduate.
His father is Yoruba, and his mother, Nkechi, is Igbo.
Like his father, he is married to an Igbo woman. Dr Ifeyinwa Rhodes-Vivour (Ph.D) is the wife of Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.
She is the daughter of Lt. Col. Ifeanyi Aniebo from Umunze in Anambra State.
Dr. Ify is an Oxford University graduate.
