Gamaliel & Susan Onosode Foundation

Today, we honour the legacy of our founder, Mr Gamaliel Onosode, on what would have been his 92nd birthday. A man of unwavering integrity, excellence, and vision, his life's work laid the foundation upon which we continue to build.

Digital equity in education does not start with devices. It starts with infrastructure. Light before screens. Stability before software. This is the sequence that policy and investment must honour. #GAMSU #DigitalEducation #NigerianEducation #ICT #SDG4

A team of students from Federal Government College Ikirun, Osun State won the 2024 FIRST LEGO League Championship in Rwanda. They also took Nigerian public schools produce this. It should not go undocumented. #ExcellenceInEducation #GAMSU #NigerianEducation #PublicSchools #STEM

When we cite the numbers; 18% of primary classrooms in poor condition, 32 million children without sanitation at school; it is easy to forget that those numbers are someone's daily reality. A teacher standing in that 18%. A child sitting in those 32 million.

Adeola Akinsulure teaches Biology at a Lagos public school. In one year, she lifted her school's Biology pass rate from 45% to 99%. She never left the classroom. That is the standard. #ExcellenceInEducation #GAMSU #NigerianEducation

I have followed with rapt attention the discourse that followed my conversation at the Platform Nigeria on May Day. The stark reality is this - opportunities are few and far between, unemployment/underemployment is high and sadly there are too few employers for a huge market such as ours, at least when compared to other markets such as China, India that have similar youth bulge. We Nigerians are some of the most hardworking and gritty people in the world. But we must tell ourselves the truth. Nigeria currently doesn’t have enough highly skilled technical talent resident in Nigeria to build companies that can scale globally. Interestingly, I have also read a lot of employers double down and agree with my current diagnosis around our country’s technical talent pipeline gap and confirmed it is true. Former Minister, Kemi Adeosun also referenced Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote comments around finding the right quality and quantity of talents for his refinery project. Let me ask a hard question - can we say that Nigeria has enough highly skilled technical talent still resident in Nigeria? That's a huge conundrum that any organization that wants to maintain market leadership must solve for. How many engineering executives do we have remaining in Nigeria that lead a payments team that handles payments infrastructure processing tens millions of transactions daily without fail? How many senior data scientists do we have in Nigeria that can create data models to appraise millions of customers while managing prudent NPLs? How many senior growth executives in Nigeria have the experience of growing a digital apps towards acquiring 80k customers a day through digital and offline channels while maintaining prudent CACs? It is important to note that this is not about Nigerians generally, this is about senior Nigerian talents still resident in Nigeria. Nigeria is not producing enough high quality senior technical talent and the little we have are emigrating. I can explain these to be that Nigeria does not have too many feeder industries across the board. As such, there are fewer starter companies that young talent can come from to feed into senior roles in other companies. Every one then ends up fighting for the same pool of senior leaders that have experience and bandwidth to deliver and win in the market. The effect of the Japa wave has been very well chronicled and I must add that this has been a trans-generational challenge. Remember that time in the early 80s where a lot of our medical professionals left for places like Saudi and the UAE? As at March 2024, Nigeria had lost around 16,000 medical doctors to other countries, most especially the US and the UK. The quality of technical education is also falling as our standard of education is lagging behind global counterparts. Can we say we have enough senior technical talent in Nigeria to compete with global competition especially China? But Moniepoint, Dangote, Flutterwave, LemFi are competing with them. Training young talents can fill the gap for the future but is inadequate for today. Companies need senior talent and cannot wait the eight to ten years needed to get them to senior levels to compete. In training young talent, Moniepoint has seen a lot of bright spots through our various interventions that are aimed at deepening the talent pool. So we are indeed doing something about improving talent density for the ecosystem. Through our DreamDevs programme, which is in its second year, we're training talented young engineering graduates with the skills they need to enter the workforce as top talent. We have supported the government's 3MTT agenda as well as a partnership with Unilag’s NITHUB to push the HatchDev initiative. Our Women in Tech internship programme, which now in its sixth year, provides women with the access, training and opportunities they need to build careers in tech. I also personally have a scholarship program for STEM students across select Nigerian universities in every geo-political zone. Competing globally also means that you spend top dollars to retain top Nigerian talents that you have nurtured. We routinely retain Nigerians that emigrate and pay them according to their local market standards. A recent example is an exceptional first class graduate we nurtured through our women in Tech program and had to go to school just as a path to emigrate and we had to retain abroad and offer an alternative naturalization path for her. Moniepoint has over 3,500 full time employees with over 90% Nigerian talents, and we’re growing 20% YoY. We’d love a world where this is at 99% while building for the world. Self deception isn’t a virtue and we must tell ourselves the home truth - we need to raise the quantity and quality of our technical talents resident in Nigeria to compete. No organization can rise above the quality of its output and execution is everything in this game. Nigeria will be great. Let’s all do the work together. By the way, top tech talents still resident in Nigeria, we need you badly. We pay above market rates and you will make real impact. Please apply here: moniepoint.com/careers For top Nigerian talents out of the country, we hire out of the UK, Portugal, Spain, India and Pakistan. Also apply, we are building digital banking infrastructure that provides financial happiness for emerging markets.

Happy New Month! May is here. A new month to keep showing up, keep doing the work, and keep believing that better is always possible — for every child, every classroom, every community. Welcome to May. Let's make it count. #HelloMay #NewMonth #GAMSU #NigerianEducation

When we talk about school infrastructure, we usually mean roofs, walls, and toilets. But infrastructure also determines dignity. #GAMSU #NigerianEducation #EducationLeadership #Dignity #PublicSchools #SDG4

Art is not a break from learning. It is one of the deepest forms of it. #WorldArtDay #GAMSU #CreativeEducation #NigerianEducation #SDG4

Communities spoke up. Here is what they told us about Nigeria's public schools. onosodefoundation.org/post/thirteen-… #AdoptASchoolNG #GAMSUIdealSchool #NigerianEducation #CommunityVoice #PublicSchools

To all who are celebrating, Happy Easter. May this season deepen your faith, renew your joy, and fill your heart with the peace that only He can give. #HappyEaster #HeIsRisen #EasterSunday #GAMSU #HopeRestored

Today, we celebrate our Chairman, Mr J. Moyo Ajekigbe, OFR, on his birthday. Happy Birthday, sir. We wish you continued good health, abundant joy, and every blessing this new year of life brings. #HappyBirthday #GAMSU #Leadership #BoardChairman

Good Friday reminds us of the sacrifice of Christ, and the call to live with purpose, humility, and service to others. Wishing you a reflective day. #GoodFriday #FaithInAction

April is here, and with it, a fresh opportunity. We are stepping into April with purpose. We hope you are too. Here is to a productive, meaningful, and impactful month ahead. #NewMonth #April2026 #GAMSU #Education #Community

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Toyin Olanrewaju. Your commitment to GAMSU's mission and to the children and communities we serve has made a real difference. #HappyBirthday #GAMSU #Leadership #GAMSUFamily

Every child deserves a classroom that is safe, clean, and functional. Not extraordinary. Just sufficient. That should be the floor, not the ceiling. #AdoptASchoolNG #GAMSUIdealSchool

The Ideal School Campaign nomination window is now closed. Thank you to every teacher, parent, community leader, and education advocate who submitted a nomination or shared the call. The assessment phase begins now. #AdoptASchoolNG #GAMSUIdealSchool

Behind many children who stay in school is a mother who made it possible. Families hold education together. But today we pause to honour the mothers in that story. Happy Mother's Day. #MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #GAMSU

Infrastructure without ownership doesn’t last. We assess community readiness as part of our evaluation because transformation should be sustainable, not temporary. Nominations are open until March 16. bit.ly/idealschoolnom… #AdoptASchoolNG #GAMSUIdealSchool #NigerianEducation

We asked our team what Rights. Justice. Action. means through the lens of education. The women and the men. Because this conversation belongs to everyone. Swipe to read their responses. #IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #GAMSUIdealSchool

Poor school infrastructure affects every child. But broken sanitation hits girls hardest — and that is a specific injustice worth naming. Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls. bit.ly/Idealschoolcam… #IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #AdoptASchoolNG #GAMSUIdealSchool