{"id":11769,"date":"2018-10-18T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11769"},"modified":"2018-10-18T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:36:39","slug":"olagunju-wabeed-abiodun","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olagunju-wabeed-abiodun\/","title":{"rendered":"OLAGUNJU, Waheed Abiodun"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Olagunju was one of the architect and drivers of BoI\u2019s outstanding turnaround and transformation into one of Africa\u2019s best Development Finance Institution (DFI). He was also actively involved with the reconstruction of NIDB into BoI (2000-2001) and the consolidation of the mandates of NIDB and NERFUND into that of BoI and worked closely with the Federal Ministry of Industry and Messrs.<\/p>\n<p>He coordinated the diagnostic study of the Bank that was undertaken between 2004 and 2005 by the Swedish Consultants (Messrs. Swedish Development Advisers) who were appointed by the African Development Bank and furthermore, played a pivotal role in the implementation of their recommendations that formed a vital input into BoI\u2019s paradigm shift that triggered the bank\u2019s rapid transformation in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Under the tenure of Mr Olagunju, the Bank of Industry recorded the most impressive performance in its history in 2016 by posting double-digit growth in almost all aspects of its operations, with about N66 billion disbursed to hundreds of small, medium and large scale businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Olagunju is currently the Executive Director, Small and Medium Enterprises, Bank of Industry (BOI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24763,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2404],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11769","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-banker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24765,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11769\/revisions\/24765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11769"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}