Mrs. Adeola Saidat Ogedengbe, Non-Executive Director

Mrs Ogedengbe holds a Certificate in Sports Coaching from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, and a Diploma in Fine Arts from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a Higher Diploma in Public Administration from South London College, East Croydon, London. She also holds many certificates in Child Care from many child care institutions in Scotland.

Adeola Ogedengbe is an FMCG, agricultural and real estate entrepreneur. She is the CEO of Eclectia Housing Direct Limited, Eclectia Household Essential Commodities and Eclectia Farms.

Mrs Ogedengbe’s involvement in real estate started in her younger days having learnt the same from her late father, a well knows property manager in Lagos. This experience she later utilized admirably as Housing Officer with the London Borough of Southwark managing over 450 council properties for several years.

An avid sportswoman in her youth, Adeola was a three-time National Junior Badminton Champion and two-time National Intermediate Ladies Singles runner up. She also represented Nigeria under the auspices of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria in Mozambique at the All African Badminton Championship, and at the All African Badminton Championship in Lagos, Nigeria. Her first exposure to many countries like the UK, Portugal, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya during her teen years was because of her active involvement in playing Badminton.

Since 2007, she has been involved in a community-based NGO, The Ososun Empowerment Initiative for less privileged women in 53 villages around Ososun. Through this faith-based organization, she works with like-minded people to change lives with the provision of free nursery and primary school education and medical supplies. In addition, the organization is currently building a “Sanctuary For Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Widows and Widowers” for fifty-four villages in Obafemi Owode Local Government, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Adeola is very passionate about children, especially children from a troubled backgrounds. As a Glasgow City Council, Scotland’s registered respite carer, between 2014-and 2020, she cared for many troubled children from various backgrounds and nations in the comfort of her home in Glasgow, Scotland.