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Kola Olugbodi

Kola Olugbodi was born in the city of Lagos, and he attended Atunda-Olu School for the Handicaps for his primary education from 1971-76. For his secondary school education, he started from Baptist Academy, Obanikoro-Lagos in 1977 but concluded at Ede Baptist High School, Ede, Osun State in 1983.

Kola gained admission into the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1984 where be obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Demography and Social Statistics in 1988. He observed his service year with the National Population Commission (NPC) and he was retained by the Commission as a Population Statistician immediately he concluded his service in 1989. Kola left NPC for the North South Bank (NSB) in 1992.

He became an entrepreneur immediately he left NSB in 1995. He was the CEO of Josh Cyrus, a Human Resource and Outsourcing Organization. After which he became the CEO of Background Check International (BCI), pioneers of the background check industry in Nigeria and West Africa in 2004.

Kola Olugbodi is Africa’s leading background check expert. He is also the inaugural Chairman of the Society for Professional Background Screeners, Nigeria and the author of the intriguing and life changing book “Through It All: Memoir of My Many Trials & Triumphs”. The book captures some of the challenges he was faced with from childhood till adulthood and how he surmounted them.

Kola Olugbodi is the 2021 Marketing Edge Outstanding Background Check Brand Personality of the Decade.

Kola is also:

  • Member, Association of Christian Investigators (ACI)
  • Kola was a Speaker at the 2018 edition of the Excellence in Leadership Conference, an annual program of the Daystar Christian Centre.
  • A Fellow of the Institute of Information Management, Africa (FIIM)
  • The First African member of the Professional Background Screeners Association (PSBA), USA
  • Advisory Board Member of the International Due Diligence Association (IDDA) USA
  • An alumnus of the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)
  • Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), USA
  • Member, ASIS International, USA
  • Member, the Nigeria Institute for Industrial Security (NIIS).

Kola is a winner of several awards, some of which are the:

  • CNBC’s West Africa Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist
  • PSR National Development Merit Award in the sphere of Background Checks, Screening & Verification Services.
  • Rotary International Achievers’ Merit Award

Kola is widely travelled and he is a public speaker and he facilitates in workshops and conferences. He is an Encourager whose hallmark in life is to always impact other people’s lives for good and for God.

He is married and blessed with two precious children.