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Bola Drmolova 

Bola or Gbola Drmolova as she is known (maiden name Shoyemi-Ibrahim) is a British/Nigerian Humanitarian, Businesswoman, Published Author and Poet, Inventor, Columnist, Lyricist and Scriptwriter. Born on the 6th of August 1969 in Lagos Nigeria.


Bola (Met wealth at home) Gbolahan (Exhibitor of Wealth) Ashabi (Specially & specifically selected/chosen and birthed) Nahimat (The serene, calm, peaceful, regal one) Bosede (birthed at end of the week) or Bola Drmolova was born in Lagos Nigeria but emigrated to the United Kingdom when she was a child to attend boarding school in Shrewsbury Shropshire with her siblings.

Personal

Bola converted to Christianity in her teens even though she was born into a very strict and strong Muslim family with many of her family members who are still practicing Muslim today. Bola was married to Arthur Drmola for 18 years after meeting in Church twenty years ago. Arthur asked her to marry him within 10 days of the start of the relationship. She is a mother to three children and a stepson.

 

She is the seventh child amongst twelve children from her wealthy property and land owner mother. She is of Yoruba, Tuareg, Fulani, Arab, Asian and European descent and from the Ijebu tribe in Ogun State, Nigeria.

 

All her siblings are businessmen and women with three lawyers and a politician.

Education

Bola attended Acton Reynald School in Shrewsbury Shropshire, England. This was followed by South Thames College for her A Levels. She obtained her BSc (Hons) in Estate Management and BA (Hons) Law at University of Greenwich. She went on to do her Masters in Law (LLM) at University of London Queen Mary and Westfield College specializing in International Trade Law, Marine Insurance, European Trade Law and General Insurance law.

 

This was followed by Legal Practice Course at The College of Law Store Street in London.

 

She is about to embark on several Leadership Executive Programmes at Harvard University, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Poetry & Publication

Bola is a published author of four books with her first publication in 1996. She had her first publishing distribution contract with Word Publisher now known as Authentic Media in Milton Keynes, England for the following books:

 

  1. So What If I am A Single Parent? (Paperback) Author: Bola Drmolova Authentic Lifestyle Publisher 2003 ISBN10 1860242936 ISBN13 9781860242939

 

   2. GNSI's Concise Meaning of Bible People's Names (Hardcover) Author: Gbola Noimot Shoyemi-Ibrahim 1996 ISBN-10 190253901X ISBN-13 978-1902539010

 

  3. GNSI's Concise Meaning of Bible Place's Names (Hardcover) Author: Gbola Noimot Shoyemi-Ibrahim 1996 ISBN-10 1902539001 ISBN-13 978-1902539003

 

  4. Please May I Pray for You? By GNSI (Prayer Series) (Paper...Author: Gbola Noimot Shoyemi-Ibrahim 1999 ISBN-10 1902539028 ISBN-13 978-1902539027

 

She was also a newspaper columnist for New Nation Newspaper, the largest weekly ethnic newspaper in the United Kingdom owned by The Ethnic Media Group and under the leadership of Michael Eboda. She wrote the Christian column “In The Spirit” for the newspaper for three and half years in addition to its “Poet’s Corner”

 

She has written sixteen volumes of her “25 Reflective Short Poems For The Soul” out of planned fifty volumes over the next three years. She has more than over 80 song lyrics and several film synopses which she hopes to develop into commercial films soon.

Inventor

She has invented and registered the patents currently for two products, namely the dosing dummy and “Easiquilt” quilt cover and pillowcase.

Work & Business

She worked at London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ legal department and her main tasks were the transfer and conveyance of local authority’ s land and vacant properties to housing associations and shared ownership sales to tenants. At Bart’s & The London NHS Trust, she worked as a Senior Manager Project Officer and her main duties were the development and facilitation of equality and recruitment laws and strategies. Its coordination, evaluation implementation, and monitoring of approved strategies. The result of her work led to many UK trained nurses who were no longer practicing being recruited back into the NHS under the Nurses Adaptation Project rather than the recruitment of nurses from abroad. The success of her work at Bart’s led to the nationwide national implementation of the project.

At the end of the project at Bart’s, she started her own business. The training and development of the unemployed, single parents, ex-prisoners, ex-drug addicts in various practical life skills and certified courses. Finding adequate employment for them on behalf of the Local and National Government. Working with the hard to reach groups, charities, and many public-sector organizations on behalf of her clients. 

 

The Company went on to achieve many awards and accreditations such as Investors In People, Matrix Awards, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Customer First UK and Microsoft Academy.

 

Some of the Company's successes were as follows:

*The Company trained over 2000 students in various courses over three years period on average.

*The Company placed over 600 NVQ and Learning Support Assistants students in work placements over three years period on average.

*Over 300 students achieved their NVQ qualifications and Learning Support Assistance qualification over three years period on average.

*Over 120 students were placed into full time paid employment on average annually

*Over 1500 Learndirect courses were fully completed and awarded over three years of the company running the project.

 

In addition to the above the company was a

*DfES Approved Training Provider

*Oxford & Cambridge Approved Examination Centre

*City and Guilds Approved Examination Centre

*British Computer Society Approved Centre for ECDL (European Computers Drivers Licence)

*Jobcentre Plus Approved Provider

*CACHE Approved Centre

*UKOnline Centre

*Learn Direct Centre

*Barclays Bank University.

*LOCN Approved Centre

*NCFE Approved Centre

*Basic Skills Online Assessment Centre and

 

Some of the Company's clients and Partners were:

*      London Borough of Islington and London Borough of Tower Hamlets and many other            London Boroughs.

*      Department of Employment & Skills, European Social Fund and ERDF.

*      Benefits Agency, DWP and JobcentrePLUS

*      Tower Hamlets College

*      Poplar HARCA

*      Ocean NDC (New Deal Community initiative)

*      World University Service

*      The Comet Project

*      Islington Enterprise Agency

*      Healthy Islington Initiatives

*      Finsbury Park Partnership

*      Camden & Islington Health Action Zone

*      Camden & Islington Community NHS Trust

*      Tower Thistle Hotel

*      London Care PLC

*      The International Hotel Docklands

*      The Millenium Suite, Docklands

*      Marion Richardson School

*      Osmani School

*      Haggerston Girls School

*      Susan Lawrence Junior

*      St Mary & St Michael (RC)School

*      Christchurch School

*      RETAS (Refugee Education Training Advisory Service) and over 200 more local, regional and national organizations.

She was passionate and committed to her work and business.  She worked tremendously hard on behalf of her clients whom she felt were grossly misrepresented and socially disadvantaged. She saw her business as a ministry, something that allowed her to give back to the society and help those in need which is why she felt deeply hurt by a totally untrue and unfounded article written about her and her company in the Daily Express in 2007 stating that clients were left in a lurch. She was never interviewed for the article nor was anyone contacted to respond to the blatant lies.
 

The business has since branched out into building/restoration/sales and purchases of land and properties and now into commodities, finance, hospitality, and food.

 

Bola is a committed Christian and through her Foundation and Trust, she supports several charities. Bola Drmolova Foundation and Bola Drmolova Trust were set up to provide small start-up loans for rural farmers and small businesses in hard to reach the area of the third world and failed states. Assist in emergency disasters globally, provide educational grants and provide shelter and housing for people in countries that have suffered from flooding and earthquakes.

 

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