Mr. Ogunkeyede Ajibola Shina, the Chief Executive Officer of Ufitfly shared with Oyo Mind, a brief insight into his story and his rise to the biggest household in tourism and destination management company in Nigeria.
Mr. Ajibola said, “In what could be described as wilderness and a huge stumbling block to success. I achieved this feat within 13 years of tourism and destination management”.
He explained to Oyo Mind, the push behind the establishment of Ufitfly Travels and Tours. He said, “I attended a Forex class and after finishing, I organized same class in Ibadan, where people gave me money with the opinion that, within a week, the money would have multiplied, some gave me 5 million, some lesser, but to my greatest disappointment, nothing happened and there was a threat of arrest and all, which earned me, the name DEBTOR”.
He continued, “I usually sleep in Bars since I don’t have a place of my own “Home”, I do sneak into my office to bath, change clothes and all, most people alleged that I swindled them that I am a thief, now those people that called me thief are now proved wrong. I now DOMINATE the environment where I was labeled DEBTOR, FRAUSTER and a THIEF”.
Sharing his breakthrough story, “My breakthrough started in 2008 when Casimira Ania A Senior Police Officer asked if I could help him with registration for an international program, which I did and I got the visa. We registered about 100 people for the next conference and that was how my journey in travel and tours started”.
Speaking about the ups and downs of the business, he explained that, “In 2017 and 2018, we lost about N200m, we shared 2 cars and gifts worths of millions in 2019, and I didn’t have up to N100,000 in my account, coupled with pandemic, we thank God the story has changed.”
