BlueBrain Services Limited

About Us

BlueBrain Services Ltd is a corporate and financial consulting firm managed by experienced corporate professionals in financial services, project management, business, and human capital development. We offer bespoke solutions and recent innovations in financial engineering in a bid to make our clients go ahead of their competition.

We aim to become one of the top 5 financial consulting firms in the country within a 3-year strategic framework. Our ambition is to deliver quality technical support services to private and public sector organizations, especially in specialized areas supporting decision making from operational results.

We support profit and non-profit organizations including other value chain stakeholders to facilitate compliance to project frameworks. We achieve our successes through quality styled narrowing of knowledge gaps. Deliverables are produced and rendered through training, advocacy, research, operational due diligence, and operational reinvention.

BlueBrain Services offers to corporates and individuals, tailored access to competent and affordable corporate, financial, and business advisory, suitable to solving peculiar needs with local attention. From our diverse resources of disciplined experts, we provide sustainable solutions delivered by a growing network of interconnected consultants and advisors.

We have delivered solutions to top agencies in Nigeria including Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (SCUML) - an agency under the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and some multilateral including African Development Bank (AFDB). We have also published and reviewed papers in sensitive areas of national and global economic concerns.

Vision

To become a top-five global consulting firm famous for innovative financial engineering solutions.

Mission

To offer custom-made financial and business solutions helping our clients to accelerate their business growth, performance, and competitiveness.

Core Values

Accountability: We believe that results and accountability are inextricably linked.
Continuous learning and improvement: We seek new knowledge to retain our position as an industry leader in our various specialities.
Integrity and ethics: We maintain uncompromising adherence to ethical and industry principles and values.
Innovation and creativity: We invest in innovations and custom-made solutions to meet the needs of our diverse clients.

Why Choose Us?

We are a professional firm with a proven record of quality and cost-effective service delivery. We have robust experience with diverse clients in the private, public, and development sectors. We adopt and integrate the best of technologies in our project design and delivery.

Our Management Team

Abubakar Kolo Ndakpoto Chairman Board of Directors

Summary: Abubakar Kolo Ndakpoto has had a distinguished career of more than 35 years spanning academia, government, consulting, banking, marketing, and international services. More than 15 years was spent on senior management functions and leadership responsibilities in investment and private banking, public sector finance, portfolio management, asset and liability generation, development finance, banking and finance and international economic relations.

He has also worked with multilateral institutions including the African Development Bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund. He has served as a representative of the Executive Directors on the 18-member Board of Directors of Africa Development Bank Group, and a member of the recapitalization committee of Trust Bank of Africa in Nigeria. He is a fellow of the Association of Forensic Accounting Researchers (AFAR), Chartered Institute of Finance and Control of Nigeria (CIFC), Fellow of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). He is also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Economist of Nigeria, and the Nigeria Institute of Management.

Mr Odiaka Olika Managing Director

Summary: Mr Odiaka Olika is a partner in the start-up Investment Banking Firm of Axe & Scofield Capital LLC, with specialization in transaction advisory, private equity, wealth and investment advisory, securitization and asset reconstruction, risk management, financial analysis and portfolio management. He has over 23 years of banking and financial services experience. He started his banking career in 1998 as an entry-level staff with Societe Generale Bank Limited and within 12 years he worked with 3 other major banks as a middle management staff leading various change and turnaround teams. In his last banking role, he was a senior management staff of First Bank where he oversaw and managed public sector and multinational company portfolios over $250 million between 2010 and 2015.

Between 2015 and 2017, he also led a team that successfully restructured a $110 million loan facility involving two major international banks on behalf of a Federal Government Institution. Mr Olika majored in Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka graduating in February 1994. He also obtained his PGDM and MBA from Ahmadu Bello University and his MSc (International Affairs and Strategic Studies) from the Nigeria Defense Academy. He has attended various courses both locally and Internationally. He also remains committed to further learning and is a student member of the CFA, CAIA and FDP Institute, GARP and CIS Nigeria.

Mr Olajide Ayodele Director

Summary: Olajide Ayodele has a career that spans more than 16 years in financial services, he has rich experience in business development, strategic planning, relationship management, budgeting, human resource training, consulting, mentoring, and coaching. Olajide has worked at Stanbic IBTC and ARM Pensions where he has provided leadership for teams across different states He has also headed and served in many strategic committees, with a scope on market penetration, business process improvement and re-engineering. Also, he develops IT platforms on sales, business reporting, client acquisition and relationship management.

He has a master’s degree in Human Resource Management, a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Chemical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM). He has also completed a leadership and Business Development course at Lagos Business School and Philip Consulting among many other reputable training institutions. He also has good knowledge of ISO 9001:2005.

Consultants

Mr PAUL SINI Consultant

Summary: Mr Paul Sini has over 18 years of banking and financial services experience and a short stint in sales and marketing within the fast-moving consumer goods industry. His core expertise is in financial services advisory, strategy, and performance enhancement for start-ups, auditing, and forensic accounting.

He started his banking career in 2003 with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc as an entry-level staff and within 14 years worked with 3 other majors banks as a middle management staff leading various teams and special business units. In his last banking role, as a senior manager in Sterling Bank Plc, he oversaw and managed the FMCG, manufacturing and telecoms team, northern businesses under the corporate and investment banking division. He afterwards joined Integrated Dairy Limited as a Regional Head of Sales - North and Abuja where he re-defined the company’s route to market and expanded the brand visibility and coverage within the northern market. Mr Paul Sini majored in Accountancy from the University of Maiduguri, Borno State graduating in December 2000. He also obtained an MBA from the Nigerian Defence Academy 2021.

Mrs Edith Igidimba Consultant

Summary:Mrs Edith Igidimba is a graduate of Accounting, an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, and Business Re-engineering and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN). She is International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) ACCA certified. Mrs Edith has over 20 years of experience in accounting, accounting systems management, tax compliance, audit etc. In 2015, she was appointed the Group Manager Control and Compliance at Chicason group (A-Z Petroleum Ltd, RIMCO Ltd, Afro Asia Automobile & Plastic Industries Ltd and Promotex Chemical Industries Ltd). In 2016, she was later promoted to the position of Group Head of Audit - Manufacturing because of her outstanding performance. She introduced a compliant tax planning system that helped reduce heavy liabilities and carried out several turnaround operations and rescue on ailing companies.

Igidimba has outstanding professional consulting skills, a brilliant mind and tremendous financial reporting capabilities. In collaboration with Accountancy tools ltd, she designed inventory control software that is used in many organizations. She lectured part-time at CAP Professional tutors, ICAN accredited study centre where she impacted tremendously on aspiring professionals. She has facilitated various training on internal audit, detection and fraud prevention. Presently she is a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and serves in the professional practice committee.

Dr. Awogbemi, Clement Adeyeye Consultant

Summary:A seasoned statistician and data expert, mathematician, and educationist. He also trained as an educationist from the Institute of Education, National Mathematical Centre, Abuja. His research works in statistics and numeracy spans social statistics research and questionnaire modelling, delivering training to narrow knowledge gaps in measurement and evaluation needs with well-published works in some globally referred journals, both at home and abroad.

His experience as a researcher in the Mathematics Improvement Project (MIP), and performance measurement and evaluation at different strata of the educational system is mammoth. He is versatile and highly skilful in the use of SPSS, STATA and R statistical packages in the analysis of data. He is presently a senior research fellow and lecturer at the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.

Prof. Osu Bright Okore Consultant

Summary: A dedicated and enthusiastic professional with over seventeen years of experience in community-based service, capacity development, program coordination and monitoring and evaluation. Prof Osu has proven expertise in establishing rapport and building trust with community social mathematics from a variety of backgrounds.

He possesses strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to partner across departments to meet the needs of quantitative work segments. He has a good team spirit, ability to work collaboratively to resolve problems and to motivate team members to achieve personal and organizational objectives. Highly skilled in tracking details, communicating deadlines, and following up with internal and external partners to ensure on-time completion within budget.