Abimbola Olaribigbe Ayuba is the current President of the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Nigeria Alumni Chapter. He is an astute manager, great public speaker, resource person, author, and the CEO, Kongolo Consult and Outsourcing Ltd, Atlantic Force Security Services Ltd and Exco Member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). He currently works as an International Risk and Security Management Consultant and a 5^th Term Council member and National Treasurer of the Nigerian Institute of Management Chartered.

He joined the military as an Officer Cadet on 17 July 1980 as a member of 28 RC. He was commissioned into the Nigerian Navy as Sub-Lieutenant on 17 July 1983.

In 2013 he also attended the Manchester Business School. In May 2017, he completed a Certificate Course in Enterprise Management from Pan Atlantic University. In March 2020, he received a Diploma Certificate in Terrorism, Intelligence and Security from The Roman Institute/Baze University, Abuja. He is a UN Certified Country and Regional Advisor of Peace Support Operations.

A Specialist Above Water Warfare (AWW) Officer and Principal Warfare Officer (PWO), Commodore Ayuba held several appointments afloat including being the Commanding Officer of Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) AGU and ashore including the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the ECOWAS, African Union, and the UN, mainly in the areas of conflict management/capacity building.

He participated in building architectures of the ECOWAS Standby Force, 2005-2006 in Ghana and the Training, Evaluation and Doctrine Development Group of the AU Standby Force in Addis Ababa and Luanda, Angola respectively. Abimbola was member of a UN Subject Matter Expert Working Group on Maritime Operations in Singapore and New York in February-July 2014.

Holding Fellowships of National Defence College (NDC), Certified Institute of Shipping, Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) Chartered and the Centre for African American Research Studies and Chartered Institute Public Diplomacy and Management. Bimbo was Director of Administration at National Defence College from September 2005 to March 2007, Maritime Component Commander/Deputy Force Commander, Operation Pulo-Shield, 2012-2013.

He was also Commandant of the prestigious Nigerian Naval College, Onne, Port Harcourt, from February 2013-March 2014, was Chief of Staff, Central Naval Command, Yenagoa, Bayelsa from March 2014 to July 2014.

Commodore Bimbo Ayuba was Director Project Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation Branch at the Naval Headquarters, Abuja from July 2014- 2015 and Director Armed Forces Physical Training and Sports at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja till retirement on 3rd June 2016.  Having Commendations from the UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping for Meritorious Service, and the Military Adviser to the UN Secretary General.

He was awarded the UN Medal of Honour for Service in DR Congo and the Chief of Army Staff Commendation training contribution, handed by Lt Gen Martin Luther Agwai (Doyen of UN Peace Keeping Operations in Nigeria). He was recipient of the Chris Abebe Award (Highest individual Award for Management Excellence), Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) in August 2021. 

He holds a PGD in Management, MBA (General Management) both from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, 1999-2001 and MSc in Strategic Studies from University of Ibadan, 2010. In 2011 and 2012 respectively he attended the Transformation and Ethics Coaching Course and Performance Coaching Course at the UK Transformation School, Hampshire, UK.

He holds Fellowships of the Nigerian Institute of Management (FNIM), Fellow of the National Defence College, Nigeria (FDC) and Fellow of the Certified Institute of Shipping. Others are Fellow of the Centre for African American Research Studies (FCAARS) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy and Management (FCIPDM).