The Managing Director, Rot Shade Global Resources, Dr. Bolufemi Rotimi, has won Kogi Built Environment Man of the Year Award for 2022.
The award will be presented to the Dr. Bolufemi by the organizers of BEBM Exhibitions at the forthcoming annual Kogi Built Environment and Building Materials Exhibitions.
This year’s event is scheduled to hold from 6th to 8th December, 2022.
The annual BEBM Exhibitions helps to create a platform for sharing new ideas and innovations in the built environment sector.
The Kogi Built Environment and Building Materials Exhibition is also an annual event for conversation manufacturers and end users in the building materials sector with a view to bringing about proper use and management of human, environment and it natural resources.
Furthermore, it is also a forum for exchanging of ideas by trades men and women, professionals in the built environment and its stakeholders.
The 2022 edition of the event is scheduled to hold between 6th and 8th December, 2022 at Idrinana Hotels and Suites, Lokoja with the theme, Building Smart Environment Using Made in Nigeria Building Materials
In Kogi State, Dr.Rotimi Bolufemi, Chief Executive Officer, Rotshade Helplink Initiative (RHI), needs no introduction. As one of the few wealthy people around a multitude of the needy, he has become an icon of enterprise with a deep sense of compassion for the less privileged.
In his early 50s, Dr. Rotimi Bolufemi is a successful businessman who applies the fear of God in all his dealings.
Through dint of hard work, diligence, patience, faithfulness, excellent human relations skills and ability to identify and harness opportunities across various business sectors, Dr. Rotimi has distinguished himself as an outstanding personality in the international business arena.
The need to give back to the society prompted him to established Rotshade Helplink Initiative, a humanitarian foundation and philanthropic organization with an eye on engendering enterpreneurship among women and young people with promising future.
Rotimi’s sense of empathy is unrivalled in Kogi State and this has continued to win him fans and loyalists across board and beyond ethnic and religious boundaries through donations to community development projects and to various religious causes.
It is to the credit of his foundation that a 10-kilometer road was constructed in Lokongoma community in Lokoja to ease the difficulty encountered by motorists in the community.
He has given meaning to life since the inception of his foundation having touched five thousand indigent students, youths, N50,000 per head to widows and the aged who have benefited from the foundation’s annual empowerment programme.
“As Dr. Bolufemi continues on this path, it is only fitting to celebrate such an icon of diligence and kindness whilst praying for more of God’s blessings on him”.
A successful businessman who is into importation of computers and motorcycles and a rice merchant, Dr Rotimi Bolufemi was on the 16th of April, 2019 in far away Morocco, a recipient of the African Union (AU) Role Model Award as AGENDA 1963 Ambassadorial Award.