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It was a glorious day for accomplished motivational speaker and one of the 100 Most Influential Nigerians globally, Dayo Olomu when he was honoured with two lifetime achievement awards the same day in London and Manchester on Saturday 13 October 2018.
In Manchester, he was honoured in recognition of his over 20 year’s contributions to humanity as a mentor to thousands of people by Wazobia International Awards 2018. The Award was presented to him by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Her Worshipful Councillor June Hitchen. Dayo was simultaneously honoured at the maiden edition of Bold, Beautiful & Branded Awards with another lifetime achievement award in the organisation’s mentorship category where he was represented by one of his associates, Pastor Yetunde Juliet Adeshile
Dayo Olomu started out as a mentor in the sixth year of the Southwark Black Mentor scheme in October 1997 and since then he has mentored over 2,500 people in both UK and Nigeria. He has also turned his worthy selfless service of enhancing professional lives into that of a philanthropist, donating his time and career in service to less privileged members of society.
An admirer of the give-back attitude, Olomu in recognition of human responsibilities, inter-connection and inter-relations, volunteered and completed the Flora London Marathon to raise money and create awareness for leukaemia in 2007 and in April 2008 he completed the Flora London Marathon again to create awareness and raise funds for Hearts of Gold Children’s Hospices, the first children’s hospice and respite care facility in Nigeria.
In March 2010, he completed the Fleet Half Marathon to create awareness and raise funds for Wish for Africa and in August 2011, he skydived to create awareness and raise funds for the Desmond Tutu Foundation. He also completed the Croydon Half Marathon in 2013 to raise funds for the homeless people in Croydon.
On 24 March 2015, he participated in one of the most enduring challenges in UK, the 100km London to Brighton Challenge, to raise money to purchase wheelchairs and disability aids for disabled people in Nigeria. It took him 30 hours to complete the task.
In 2016, he launched Dayo Olomu Foundation (DOF) in Lagos and offered mentoring opportunities to 1,000 youths. This foundation currently supports two orphanages and offers scholarships to the girl child.
DOF was launched on Saturday April 2 2016 during the Soni Irabor Youth Empowerment Forum at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos. DOF’s vision is to raise transformational leaders, mentor professionals, empower youths economically and support the less privileged members of society, especially women and children.’
As of today, DOF has offered mentorship and support to 1,500 youths, provided financial support to 100 people, mostly women, reviewed more than 250 CVs and assisted 25 people to find employment. In addition, the foundation has donated soft toys to two orphanages in Lagos. In the UK, the DOF is involved in feeding the homeless people in Croydon, Surrey at The Queen’s Gardens through the Nightwatch charity.
Dayo Olomu said: “I am humbled and grateful to the organisers of both awards who found me worthy of the lifetime achievement awards. I am happy that I am able to restore belief to many people who have lost it, vision to those who can no longer see and cure many people who suffer from possibilities blindness.
“I am delighted to be a noble warrior who is winning in different aspects of my life. Winning as described by Israel’s ‘Winning Guru Yehuda Shinar in his book “Think Like a Winner” is someone’s ability to maximise his or her potentials even when under pressure and in competitive situation, while demonstrating constant improvement”. The truth is that I have worked harder on myself than my job. I got this advised from Jim Rohn.
“What I enjoyed most about my work, career and business are:
[1] Making a difference
[2] Inspiring and empowering people and organisations
[3] Having fun while making a difference & inspiring and empowering people and organisations.
“Isn’t that great? When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. I believe in what I do. I am paid to make a difference in people’s life – what a great job. I go to work every day with passion.
“My focus now is making a difference and aligning myself with the people and organisations that enable me to make a difference in the world especially in Africa, the United States, United Arab Emirate and United Kingdom. My new work in Africa is to help increase the level of human capital in the continent, increase the number of business leaders and entrepreneurs, develop effective communicators and public speakers, help people to conquer fear, to stop procrastination, to help people to believe in themselves and to take action so that they can become the person they are destined to be.
My legacy is, when I get to the end of my life, I want to know that my life counted for something, that long after I am gone, somehow my impact will live on. I want to know that I have done all that I could to make this world a better place by positively enhancing the lives of those around me and helping thousands, if not millions, become who they desire to be and achieve what they thought was impossible. I want to know that I gave everything my best shot. I maximised my potentials and stretched myself to the limit. Most importantly, that I served God and I was a good husband and father.”
At the moment, Dayo Olomu currently supports three charities – Focus on Disability Foundation, a UK registered charity that provides mobility aids to the physically challenged people; Croydon Nightwatch, which empowers and assists thousands of homeless vulnerable people to turn around their lives, from being homeless and unemployed to re-settling and providing them with a stable, enriched life and FoodBank, a non-profit, charitable organisation that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough food to avoid hunger.
Dayo Olomu is joining big hearted business and community leaders who pledge to sleep outdoors for one night at Lord’s Cricket Ground London on Monday 29 October 2018 to raise awareness and sponsorship from their business contacts and friends to fight homelessness and poverty in the City. He is aiming to raise £2,000 so your support would be very much appreciated.
