Removal of heavy metals from water presents a lingering challenge. Inorganic pollutants are persistent and non-biodegradable, hence are retained in polluted sites for a very long time. Due to their poisoning nature, it becomes imperative to develop cost-effective methods for their removal. In this study, a local clay mineral was collected and mildly treated for the adsorption of lead from an aqueous solution. The applicability of the pulverized clay from the Akoko region of Ondo state Nigeria, for removal of lead from aqueous solution, was evaluated using the batch sorption process. The role of pH, initial lead concentration, agitation time, and temperature were analyzed to get optimum conditions for maximum removal of lead. Experimental data were best fitted to Freundlich adsorption isotherm with a maximum adsorption capacity of 0.49 mg/g at correlation coefficient > 0.99. It was found that 80 minutes of contact, basic pH, and ambient temperature were optimum conditions for the removal of lead using pulverized clay. These findings further buttress that readily available geochemical substance can be harnessed for the decontamination of metal pollution in water/wastewater.