Leadership
A cooperative asking people to contribute capital should be willing to say exactly who is running it.
Mr Gbola Oba
A strategic business thinker-and-doer known for helping founding entrepreneurs take their businesses to a higher stature.
As the chief contributing political broadcaster on BEN TV in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s, he raised the profile of the station by regularly bringing the good and the great of Africa to his shows - among them the Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the late Prof. Wangari Maathai, alongside presidential, ministerial and gubernatorial figures from across the continent.
A strong believer in Nigerian youth: “All they ever need to beat the world is visionary and purposeful public and private sector leadership,” he often says.
An experiential and methodical mentor, he is now committed to reducing Nigeria’s housing-stock deficit of nearly 20 million homes, and the culture of incompetence that has defined much of the building and construction industry, by encouraging diaspora and returnee industry experts to kickstart TRAIN2BUILD - a strategic, interventionist skills-empowerment programme for youths and a skills-upgrade programme for working artisans.
Directors of the cooperative
Six directors serve ULDA & PARTNERS COOPERATIVE LTD. Directors’ duties, appointment and removal are set out in Part 4 of the constitution.
Engr Olatokunboh Otiti
Managing Director
Mr Femi Okutubo
Director of PR & Marketing
Engr Oladapo Sulu
Director of Engineering
Ms Ola Mustapha
Director of Admin
Ms Funke Lampejo
Financial Director
Ms Maureen Ogbu
Legal Director
Governance
The board is accountable to the membership. Directors are elected and replaced at the annual general meeting (Article 21(c)), and the proceedings of the board are governed by Part 5 of the constitution. Members holding 10% of the membership can require the directors to call a general meeting (Article 23).
The current register of directors, including appointment dates, is a matter of public record at Companies House. View the officers on the register.
Put your capital to work where it builds something
Membership starts at £100 a month. Your contribution is pooled with other members, invested in housing projects approved in London and built in Nigeria, and measured on both financial and social return.