Dr Stephen Akintayo is one of the hottest topics in the Nigerian real estate sector right now. This young, but innovative man stormed the Nigerian property sector with many ideas and innovations. He plays both in the low and high-income sectors of the industry. He develops and sells property in the high brow of Lagos. He is also a big player in land transactions and deals. A lot of people have now become landlords/landladies through his innovative ideas.
Dr Stephen is the founder of Gtext Homes, one of the subsidiaries of Gtext Global.
As a result of success recorded by Gtext homes last year, he gave out more than 5 new cars to realtors and members of staff of his real estate firm.
A few weeks back, this gentleman marked his birthday and it was a big celebration.
It should be added that for the first time, Forbes Magazine named him. Serial Entrepreneur and Africa’s Most Influential Coach. Dr Stephen, who at a point in his life, was a popcorn seller as an undergraduate, is today one of the big boys rocking the Lagos property sector.
Not many people know this man. We would tell you for free!
Dr Stephen Akintayo is Africa’s most influential investment coach. He is the GMD/CEO of Gtext Global, which is the mother company of different subsidiaries. The firm includes Gtext Homes, a Real Estate company with a highly innovative and young workforce.
It is based in Nigeria, with Headquarters in Banana Island, Lagos. Other branches include Omole Phase 1, Lagos; Abuja, FCT; Ibadan, Oyo State; Abeokuta, Ogun State; Asaba, Delta State and Port Harcourt, Rivers State, all in Nigeria.
Gtext Homes also has offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE); London, United Kingdom and Florida, USA. They have a workforce of more than 300 people.
Other subsidiaries include Stephen Akintayo Consulting (SAC), which has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE. It is poised to raise entrepreneurs, who will lead the world of business and investments in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. In raises entrepreneurs through mentorship, practical and in-depth training courses such as; Real Estate brokerage and investment, E-commerce, Digital marketing, Cryptocurrency and Forex Trading.
Stephen Akintayo Consulting has a vision of raising 1 million millionaires by the year 2050, with 70% of them from African heritage, and others who are Africans in Diaspora. This led to the creation of Stephen Akintayo University in 2020.
The Stephen Akintayo Investment University is an Online Wealth Creation School. This university was formed after realizing that formal education doesn’t teach about money and wealth creation. Hence, a university that does that was created for people to study and get certified upon completion. The aim of this university is to broaden the knowledge base and further sharpen the skills of young people with our numerous practical and time-tested courses.
Another amazing subsidiary is called Ginido (an E-commerce platform), formerly called Gilead Balm. It has hundreds of organizations as its clients, and that includes multinational companies such as Heritage Bank, Guarantee Trust Bank, PZ Cussons, MTN, Chivita, DHL, GNLD among others.
Gtext Global has also diversified into the agricultural sector, with the subsidiary Gtext Farms. Gtext Farms has a substantial equity investment in Allanisaqriq Limited, which started in 2012. It is focused on cash crop exportation, with a warehouse at Kano, Kogi, Abuja, and over 100 acres of Cashew farm in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Gtext Farms plans to grow into the largest Cashew crop processor and organic farm in Nigeria by the year 2035.
Subsequently, other subsidiaries like Gtext Land, Gtext Academy, Gtext Hub, Gtext and Associates, Gvest, and Gtext Soft has been formed, and have also birthed massive results.
The founder of Gtext Global, formerly known as Gilead Balm Group Services has assisted a number of businesses in Nigeria to move to enviable levels by aiding them to reach their clients through its enormous nationwide database of real phone numbers and email addresses. It has hundreds of organizations as its clients including multinational companies.
Born in the Gonge area of Maiduguri, Borno State, the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, in a very impoverished environment by a civil servant mother who raised him and his four other siblings with her meagre salary. His father’s contract business had crumbled before he was born.
His passion for philanthropy was informed by his upbringing. In his words: “My surname was poverty. Hunger was my biggest challenge. I had to scavenge all through primary school to eat lunch, as I didn’t go to school with lunch packs. We were too poor to afford that, but things got better in my secondary school days.
Although, my mum would go to her colleagues to borrow money to send me to school each term. It was humiliating when I see them looking at my mum with utter dismay as someone who kept begging. It hurt dearly. I hated poverty and I pray to help more families to come out of it.”
Dr Stephen learnt how to spell the word “THE” in JSS 1. His educational background was faulty. You could easily conclude that Stephen would never amount to anything in life. He spent ages 8-12 in an environment without electricity, within a forest region of Maiduguri-Damboa road. “I laid on a mattress at age 13 for the first time”, he said.
At 17, he read his first business book, “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and the rest is history today.
He started a business at the age of 17 selling food supplements by GNLD introduced to him by his cousin. And his first online-based business was selling E-books he bought for N3,000. He ventured into other businesses in the process. His main drive to succeed was to compensate a very hardworking mother, who denied herself everything just to educate her 5 children.
While a student, he organized students’ trade fairs within the student community. It was during his higher education that his mother died of Ovarian Cancer. He was 24 years old.
That was the toughest season of his life and business career, as his mother had been his main financier. If there was anyone who believed in his entrepreneurial skill, it was his mother. Even one of his early members of staff said he was not a businessman because of his soft-spokenness and his willingness to share his success secret with others –qualities he learned from his mother.
“The day you start giving is the day you start living. The day you stop giving is the day you start dying. Give daily to live daily. Give joy, give counsel, give smiles, give food and give business ideas, to change the world” – Stephen Akintayo. Dr Stephen Akintayo’s story is, indeed from grass to grace. His singular regret in life is that his hardworking mother died a few years before he got the big break, not witnessing what she had always wished for.
He is also the Founder and President of the Stephen Akintayo Foundation, formerly called Infinity Foundation. Infinity Foundation started in 2008 as a student Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with a group of 13 students who donated N3,000 each to make an impact on an orphanage in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, called Galilee Foundation.
The Stephen Akintayo Foundation has now assisted orphans and vulnerable children as well as mentored young minds. The foundation has assisted over 2,000 orphans and vulnerable children. It has also partnered with over 25 orphanage homes in the country. The foundation has also cared for victims of Boko Haram attacks in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria.
The Stephen Akintayo Foundation focuses on the donation of relief materials, food and financial grants for school children and entrepreneurs. It offered grants of 10,000,000 naira to 20 entrepreneurs in 2015, and the recent grants of $1,000 to the Instagram business challenge and 500,000 naira to 4 winners of the billionaire Habits book challenge.
In 2020, Dr. Stephen Akintayo took giant strides that had landed the entire conglomerate on the global scene, expanding business networks to 4 continents of the world. The business empire has grown to a multi-billion naira corporation, with the vision to take over the centre stage in the Real Estate and Digital Marketing sectors.
He is a prolific writer, who has 36 titles to his name. The best selling billionaire habits book that has sold thousands of copies globally, with hangouts in over 50 cities of the world, building habits of billionaires in people. Other books include Survival Instincts, The Information Millionaire, Maximising Your Real Estate Investment, Managing Family Finance, among other life-transforming books.
Dr Stephen is a media personality in Television, Radio and Print media. He ran a series of radio programmes tagged: CEO Mentorship with Stephen Akintayo.
In 2020, he started the revolutionary business TV Show, Investment Chat in a Rolls Royce with Dr. Stephen Akintayo which is a blend of luxury, entertainment and investment talks on it. The TV show is two-phased, the Nigerian and Dubai series.
The Nigerian series has been airing since 2020 on Channels Television and his Facebook and YouTube social media platforms.
In 2021, he took the show to Dubai and it has been a huge success. He also started the Learning Luxury Show in Dubai as well and is on the 3rd edition of the show. In 2021 as well, he played host to the Global Property Brokers Conference, where international business moguls such as Grant Cardone, Ryan Serhant, and the number one coach in the world, John C. Maxwell were in attendance.
He has also played host to Robert Kiyosaki, Dr Brian Tracy, Dr Les Brown, on the billionaire Habits Masterclass webinar – a global webinar that was organised to instil in young people the habits of successful billionaires and how they can replicate same.
He’s also the convener of the Believers Wealth Conference and the Family Finance Conference that teaches believers and couples they can build legitimate transgenerational wealth for themselves.
He stages a yearly conference called the Upgrade Summit, which is held at the beginning of every year to prepare young people all over the world for the coming year and how they can achieve giant strides in the year.
His mentorship platform has a wide reach as it caters for both personal and corporate development. Dr Stephen strongly believes young Nigerians with a passion for entrepreneurship can cause a business revolution in Nigeria and the world at large. Little wonder his business empire is run by young and vibrant people.
His first degree was in Microbiology from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria. He is a member of the Institute of Strategic Management (ISMN). He is also a graduate of the Harvard University Executive Programme, where he studied Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders, and Real Estate Investment respectively.
In 2020, he was awarded a Doctor of Science, D.Sc (Honoris Causal) in Real Estate Development and Corporate Leadership by the European American University. He is also a trained coach by the Coaching Academy, UK.
He is a multiple award winner, and is happily married and blessed with three children; two boys, and a lovely girl.
– ISAAC ABIMBADE
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