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Hajara Adeola, CEO of Lotus Capital Restricted, Nigeria’s pioneer agency in Shari’ah-compliant asset administration, personal wealth administration advisory providers, and monetary advisory providers, has made a outstanding stride within the finance enterprise in Nigeria.

Although a billionaire’s wife and really profitable in her personal rights and efforts, her modest lifestyle just isn’t unsure. Like her husband, Fola Adeola, whose contributions to Nigeria’s banking trade are nicely documented, particularly as he co-established GTBank within the late 80s when he was in his 30s, Hajara, his lovable wife, has jumped into his nook.

With over 20 years’ expertise working in top-tier international funding banks in the UK and Nigeria, Hajara has stepped up the plate with the approaching of her Lotus Financial institution Restricted, which secured a non-interest banking licence from the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN). Hajara’s Lotus Financial institution is the primary non-interest financial institution to begin operations from South-West Nigeria with a spotlight to serve individuals of all faiths.

This follows the financial institution’s willpower to ship different choices to interest-based banking and cater to the wants of the banked, unbanked, and underbanked inhabitants. Already, trade stakeholders have reportedly acquired the information with indescribable pleasure, given her pedigree as a prime trade knowledgeable in Islamic fund administration in Nigeria.

Earlier than founding Lotus Capital, Hajara had labored with Arthur Anderson Consulting (now Accenture), UBS Warburg, BNP Paribas, and ARM Funding Managers. With stable tutorial {qualifications}, together with MSc Finance (Durham College); MBA Worldwide Administration (Exeter College), and BSc Pharmacology (King’s Faculty, London), Hajara has been instrumental to the event of Islamic finance merchandise within the capital market and the issuance of the Sukuk bond in Nigeria.

Regardless of her busy schedule as a monetary large shot, Kogi State-born Hajara (nee Atta) nonetheless has time to take care of her husband and their six pretty youngsters, who’re all doing nicely of their varied careers.

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