Judges

Mr Babatunde Mumuni, FIIPS, FSSPN

Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria

Babatunde Mumuni FIIPS, FSSPN, is a quintessenal hands- on professional with mul-dimensional skills with core competence in human management, corporate strategy and business transformaon. He holds an Advanced Professional Diploma in Security Management & Strategic Operaon from the Internaonal Instute of Professional Security.

He boasts of 33+ years of industry experience, 24 of which are at Board level. His experience traverses the private security sector of the economy and he stands out in Corporate Nigeria as one of the few business execuves who has demysfied the erroneous concentraon on paper qualificaons. He is an advocate for raw skills and character in the workplace.

Babatunde is currently carrying on the legacy of his father to ensure the sustainability of Nigerian Invesgation & Safety Company Limited, a company that has spanned the last 55 years and is the pioneer private security company in Nigeria, which was founded by his father, Jimoh Alabi, Babatunde Mumuni and Rodney Keith Hallam, on August 28, 1968.

Mr Kehinde Alex Ogundare

International Institute of Professional Security

Ogundare Kehinde Alex has been a security expert and consultant in both national and private security since 2008 and he is a lecturer in international institute of professional security (IIPS) and also the director of research development and publications of international institute of professional security.

He received his B.Sc in accounting from Lagos state university in 2012. Since 2015 he has been a frequent trainer in IIPS and many other institutes home and abroad and he has anchored much training with Nigeria police and Nigeria navy. He has attended trainings, seminars and conferences home and abroad on security management and strategic operations.

Currently, he is working on two books titled ‘’ The totality of corporate and industrial security management” and “Lagos threats and risk exposed’’ which will be published in early 2024.

Mr Kola Olugbodi

Society for Professional Background Screeners

Kola Olugbodi was born in the city of Lagos, and he attended Atunda-Olu School for the Handicaps for his primary education from 1971-76. For his secondary school education, he started from Baptist Academy, Obanikoro-Lagos in 1977 but concluded at Ede Baptist High School, Ede, Osun State in 1983.

Kola gained admission into the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1984 where be obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Demography and Social Statistics in 1988. He observed his service year with the National Population Commission (NPC) and he was retained by the Commission as a Population Statistician immediately he concluded his service in 1989. Kola left NPC for the North South Bank (NSB) in 1992.

He became an entrepreneur immediately he left NSB in 1995. He was the CEO of Josh Cyrus, a Human Resource and Outsourcing Organization. After which he became the inaugural CEO of Background Check International (BCI), pioneers of the background check industry in Nigeria and West Africa in 2004.

Kola Olugbodi is Africa’s leading background check expert. He is also the inaugural Chairman of the Society for Professional Background Screeners, Nigeria and the author of the intriguing and life changing book “Through It All: Memoir of My Many Trials & Triumphs”. The book captures some of the challenges he was faced with from childhood till adulthood and how he surmounted them.

Kola Olugbodi is the 2021 Marketing Edge Outstanding Background Check Brand Personality of the Decade.

Engr Emmanuel Uwalaka MASSP, MOSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Association

Emmanuel is a certified international safety instructor from the American Institute of Professional Studies (AIPS, USA), He holds Honourary Doctorate Degree in Disaster Risk Management and Safety from Efam Benin University – Benin Republic, OSHAssociation UK Trainer and also a regular international speaker in various annual global conferences such as Health and Safety Expo UK, Intersec Dubai,  FPSO Africa Congress Ghana, Securex West Africa, The BIG 5 Construct Expo Kenya and GISCon Conference Dubai.

He is the author of “Safety- Everyone’s Responsibility- for a secure future”, also the Author:  Essentials and Best Practices in Health, Safety and Environment, launched in London 2022, which was released into various industries and the international community for the benefit of professionals from various sectors. He has won several distinguished awards including Safety Health Practitioners International Rising Star Award at Excel London in 2019. He is also known as The Safety Minister, due to his proactive performance in the health and safety sector in Africa and globally.

Emmanuel is currently a key player in the Occupational Safety and Health Sector in Africa and an official executive of the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHAssociation) with headquarters in the United Kingdom, he has coordinated local and international trainings, conferences and activities for the OSHAssociation with a strong impact and participation from various industries and organisations.