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Bamidele Olamilekan

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Bamidele Olamilekan popularly known as “Kingpexxie” with Over 60 awards won, is a household name in the Nigerian Entertainment sector and Legal Space, as he has carved a  Ninché for himself with a career spanning over a decade of experience and expertise. 

He currently serves as the Principal Partner at Lekan Bamidele and Co, a 360 legal advisory law firm in Lagos Nigeria focused on Intellectual Property, Media, Tech, sports and entertainment law, thereby shooting him into the Top 20 young CEOs in Nigeria as of 2023 according to an award organizing body – “Scream africa awards” 

The firm of Lekan Bamidele and co also acted as Legal representatives to San Francisco based tech startup “PASTEL” formerly known as “SABI”, which recently raised $5.5 Million Seed Fund.

Olamilekan also serves as Alternate Chairman of the Media and Advisory committee to the NBA Lagos branch. Olamilekan is also a member of the International Law Association. 

Starting the tune of the year 2022 on a high pitch, he was appointed Group Brand Manager for FoLiXx Group, a top tier hospitality firm in Lagos Nigeria. 

Towards the tail end of 2022 (November), he got admitted into the Compliance institute of Nigeria (CIN), where he obtained a Designate Compliance Professional (DCP) degree, having passed the exam in high miles.

Olamilekan Holds a Mini-MBA Professional certificate in Marketing and Communications from the prestigious International Business Management Institute (IBMI) in Berlin-Germany.

His presence and noteworthy contribution to the social media sphere in Nigeria and Africa generally at large cannot be understated, which landed him as the 4th Most Influential Young Nigerian of 2018 alongside Afrobeats superstars Davido, footballer Ahmed Musa and many more from a survey carried out by a Ghanian based research agency “Avance Media”. 

This further also got him on the No. 4th spot on a High-profile List called “The Top 17 Young Social Media Influencers of 2017”.

Olamilekan was awarded and inducted into the Royal African Young Leader (RAYL) Court by the Highly revered, His Imperial Majesty Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II Ooni of Ife in 2021, for his noteworthy contribution in Nigeria.

Bamidele Olamilekan is a Graduate of the great Afe Babalola University (ABUAD) where he gained his LL.B degree and further went to obtain his B.L in the Nigerian Law school (Abuja – Bwari Branch) coming out with a second class upper division, which then landed him a spot in the Nigerian Bar association after a successful call to Bar ceremony.

Bamidele Olamilekan during his stay in Afe Babalola University was regarded as many things but most importantly a proactive, forward thinking, social, and “can do” student. He was elected as the PRO for the Law student’s society of ABUAD Law for the year 2013- 2014, in an election where he ran unopposed due to his prowess. He later ran for the post of Director of Socials and won subsequently in the year 2014-2015 where he meritoriously served and discharged his duties.

He further went on to win award for Most Social Male Student in all Universities in Nigeria at the 2015 campus heat awards, and He also won most popular Male and most sociable male student in the 2015 Law students society award Night, alongside being awarded as the Most influential male at the 2018 Nigeria Teens Choice Award in Abuja amongst other awards.

Bamidele Olamilekan during his undergraduate years did his internship program with Yinka Farohunbi (of blessed memory) in the year 2013 and 2014 during his summer program.

He also carried out his externship program in 2016 with Lola Bolarinwa and Co, a distinguished law firm in the Victoria Garden City area of Lagos. He worked diligently well to the point where he got a request letter from the Same Lola Bolarinwa & co to the NYSC state coordinator, which got him the same place for his Place of Primary Assignment during his National Youth service year.

Describing Bamidele Olamilekan isn’t complete without adding the word “philanthropist” and “humanitarian” in his accolades, as he ensured to visit an orphanage home in Abuja in 2015 to give back to the less privileged, and he, in turn alongside his media company “KPMH”, started a war against malaria in the Makoko slum Area of Lagos State in November 2016 sharing over 10,000 mosquito nets and drugs to residents of the slum in his program tagged “King Pexxie Kick Against Malaria”. 

Less than a month later, he and his media company collaborated with Nigerian Artist Dammy Krane alongside his charity home “Amin foundation” to take their malaria-kicking war to the Ebutte Metta area of Lagos in Yaba.

Bamidele Olamilekan’s love for brand building and digital marketing has earned him and his media company KPMH the favourite spot on the list of Major Multinational brands like One.org, Pepsi, Union bank, American Honey, Mc Dowell, Coca-Cola Nigeria, Intel, Hp, MTN Nigeria, Globacom, Sunlight, Martel cognac, Yudala, etc.

He was also on Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential online media campaign team from 2014 till the year 2015 presidential election.

His strong prowess in online marketing, brand building, and Entertainment has made him a private lawyer to so many Nigerian Entertainment superstars and major brands. His Law firm currently serves as Legal advisors to one of Nigeria’s largest exporters and processors of Cocoa “Sunbeth Global Concept”.

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