WHAT WILL YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED FOR?

There is motivational power in the life history of achievers. I love reading the history of great achievers. I have found that to be very inspiring to me. The story of achievers gives me a kick in the ass to take a positive step towards becoming a great achiever. It gives me a pat at my back encouraging me to go for great future. Recently, there has been a nudging in my heart to start publishing a newsletter or a magazine that will publish the history of achievers in Nigeria and around the globe. I want to publish the history of great achiever who started young. My aim for this project is to counsel, inspire and motivate young minds (Teenagers, youths) to go for great future. Many young people are wrongly influenced to focus on things that do not add values to their future. I want to give solution to that problem. I have discovered that I was created to help young minds understand themselves and to give them direction and focus to go for great future. This is exactly what we want to do through BBF TV Magazine. The magazine will be given out for free while we source for advert to cover the cost. My blog; buildinggreatfuturetv.blogspot.com.ng will do the same. I came across a great achiever in Nigeria who started with the habit of excellence at early age. She gained admission at 14 and graduated at 19 and has achieved great feats at her career with myriad of accolade. I was so motivated by her biography I read in her blog and I decided to share her story to young minds. I did this because I know her story will give you a push to go for great future. I give her the credit. I want you to read her life story. It will inspire you to pursue greatness. You have what it takes to reach the top. Take actions with a desire for excellence. Make excellence a habit and it bring you to limelight. Read her story;

OLAJUMOKE ADENOWO is a multiple Award winning Architect. She has been called the “Face of Architecture” in Nigeria. She was featured on CNN African Voices, and profiled on CNN as Africa’s Starchitect, and has been featured in the world’s leading Architectural Publications such as America’s Architectural Record Magazine.

Admitted to the University of Ife to study Architecture at the age 14, she graduated at 19 with a BSc. (Hons) and subsequently with a record breaking distinction in Masters of Science (MSc) in Architecture (a first in the several decades of the history of the Institution). While in the University, she won several faculty awards for her academic work including best student in design in the BSc. Hons and MSc. programs and best overall student, Best Housing Studies Student amongst several others. In 1991, she was included in the “Who will be who in the 21st century” (young achievers section) by the International Biographical Centre Cambridge, England. She is an alumnus of a number of prestigious institutions including the Lagos Business School Chief Executive Programme (2002) and The IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain (2005).

As a chartered architect, she worked with leading Nigerian firms and at Femi Majekodunmi Associates where she had the privilege of designing the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja. She later started her own multiple award winning Architecture and Interior Architecture firm, AD Consulting with just 400USD in 1994 and has held the position of Principal Partner till date. The firm has gone from its small cubicle in central Lagos to 3 offices and is now recognised as the flagship boutique that pioneered Interior Architecture in Nigeria. AD Consulting, a boutique architectural firm providing bespoke interior design and architectural services to a discerning clientele, has executed the design and overseen the construction of over 70 outstanding projects for the Nigerian federal and state governments, multinational corporate organizations and private individuals. AD Consulting is the architect of note to MNCs such as Coca Cola International, L’Oreal, CRI, NGC, GTBank, amongst others. Possessing a deep understanding of branding, AD Consulting deploys design of the built space as a brand enhancer. AD has won several international awards for its designs and is the only Nigerian architectural firm recommended by the British Chamber of Commerce for architectural services in Nigeria.

In 1999, she founded Awesome Treasures Foundation to raise Transformational Leaders, its summits and other initiatives have attracted well over 50,000 attendees.

She is a speaker of note in demand at summits and conferences including the Harvard Business School (African Business Club), the Inspiring Woman Businessday Series, churches, and media platforms.

She hosts her own syndicated radio program Voice of Change on Leadership. She is an author of several books including the much lauded “Lifespring the Mothers’ Prayer Manual” and her most recent work “Designed for Marriage”. She writes a popular column on interiors in Thisday Style and is also a lyricist.

She serves on the board of several businesses, institutions and social initiatives. Including the Board of Governors of the elite British School of Lome, the Board of Fountain Holdings Limited, the National Think Tank, the Ekiti State Economic Council, amongst several others. She has been honoured with several awards a few of which are the Rare Gems award by WODEF in conjunction with the United Nations Information Centre, the International Property Awards (Best Public Service Architecture, 2012), African Property Awards (Best Mixed-Use Architecture), ( Best Office Architecture and Best Public Service Architecture, 2013), IDEA Awards (Best Commercial Designer 2012), (Best interior Architect 2013), (The Ekiti State Merit Awards 2014), IDEA Awards (Best Institutional Architect 2014), and honoured as an “Ambassador of Excellence” for outstanding achievements in Architecture and women development by her Alma mater.

Olajumoke is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators- 2015 ACIArb (UK) and a Member African Leadership Network.

She is married to Olukorede and they are blessed with two sons.

      By: Comrade Arinze Okwara

           Founder : MOCET