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Biography Of Adetola Nola

Adetola Nola, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Veritasi Homes Limited, was born in November 1990 at Molete, Ibadan. He is an excellent driven and innovative real estate entrepreneur with positive energy and experience instrumental in redefining success in the Nigerian real estate industry.

Adetola holds a first Degree in Chemical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and he is currently running an MBA (Masters in Business Administration) at Metropolitan School of Business & Management, London. A strong believer in continuous learning, he has attended many capacity development courses, including Strategic Management & Leadership courses at the London Metropolitan University, Finance and Management Courses at the London School of Business & Finance; and numerous seminars locally and internationally.

Prior to Veritasi, Adetola founded and co-founded five other companies - including Noah & Nola Incorporated, Pineapples Luxury Retail Store and Couture 89 amongst others. Apart from Veritasi, he is also currently the Founder/Chief Strategy Officer of Nola Travels - a business he started with the aim of helping unemployed graduates.

Having failed in business severally, he is passionate about helping other businesses succeed. In fact, his vision is: To raise at least 200 successful African Entrepreneurs who will, in turn, create employment by 2020. In a bid to achieve this, Adetola trains batches of at least forty realtors and entrepreneurs on business and financial intelligence every Thursday since November 2018 in his office. In a similar vein, he helps friends and family members to analyse their businesses. In a similar vein, he analyses businesses for friends and family members. He has analysed over 40 businesses for close friends and family members. And he has helped in restructuring about 20 of these businesses free of charge.

His expertise, knowledge and experience span sales, marketing, real estate investment, property finance, real estate advisory, management and leadership development. As the CEO of Veritasi, he parades impressive leadership, corporate management skills, and rich top management experience.

Starting his real estate career as a real estate sales consultant with Grenadine Homes, he recorded a plethora of success in closing property deals. After facilitating projects for other real estate companies, he founded Veritasi in 2017 with just one staff - his secretary. The company has recorded over 2 billion Naira in revenue in less than two years of operation, which he attributes to the company’s vision of solving the housing problems of middle-income earners in Nigeria. Today, he has over 12,000 real estate consultants, 1300 Veritasi Realtors and 18 full-time staff.

Nola is championing the emergence of smarter communities with green energy in Nigeria. He believes in fast real estate, that is, developing and providing properties that are timely in delivery, cost-effective, energy efficient, and durable. He is also a strategic investor with investments in the automobile industry, fashion and agriculture.

He impacts his community in various ways, including acting as a resource person at many learning and discourse sessions. He has spoken in many local and international conferences including - University of Mazda, Abu Dhabi and Property Investment & Homebuyers Show, London amongst others.

As a Humanitarian, he has partnered with a number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) with the aim of eradicating poverty and establishing a positive legacy. Ultimately, he believes that solving the problem of unemployment and poverty in Africa can be achieved through entrepreneurship. Thus, he has created platforms where can people work and learn to build companies of their own.

He has multiple local and international awards in real estate and entrepreneurship - including Most Enterprising Student from Obafemi Awolowo University; Most Innovative Staff from Grenadine Homes; Best Intern in Operations from NNPC; Young Real Estate CEO Speaker from Property Investment Show, London; and  Fastest Growing Entrepreneur from Grapevine Real Estate.