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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: https://t.co/hrBbhCWj1k

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.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

I remember this vaguely, but I read something someone shared last year that if you’re ever lucky to be blessed with motion, that wind at your back, run.

Run fast and far, for the wind is fickle and legs do tire. A moving man will meet his luck, as long as he never stops.

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There are three ministries in Nigeria that, if they truly worked together, could make life easier for Nigerians while generating billions of dollars in revenue every year.

But for that to happen, we need leaders who are willing to put Nigeria first.

The three ministries are:
1. Federal Ministry of Transportation
2. Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy
3. Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy

These ministries control sectors that could make Nigeria feel like heaven on earth.

Take tourism for example.

Nigeria’s tourism industry contributes roughly $4–5 billion annually.

Now compare that with the Philippines, where tourism generates close to $100 billion every year.

Yet Nigeria has more cultural diversity, more festivals, a globally influential music industry, and one of the largest film industries in the world.

Now look at the maritime sector.

The Philippines earns roughly $16–25 billion annually from maritime and ocean industries.

Nigeria earns about $6–8 billion.

Yet Nigeria has the largest port economy in West Africa, massive oil shipping activity, a long Atlantic coastline, and one of the biggest consumer markets in Africa

The opportunity is there… but corruption and poor coordination continue to slow progress.

The last time I visited the Philippines, I traveled from Manila to Cebu, then to Bohol, and back to Manila on a Ro-Pax vessel.

That journey made me imagine how transformative such a system could be in Nigeria.

Nigeria has eight coastal states that touch the Atlantic Ocean:

• Lagos State
• Ogun State
• Ondo State
• Delta State
• Bayelsa State
• Rivers State
• Akwa Ibom State
• Cross River State

In addition, several inland states are connected to the ocean through river systems flowing into the Niger Delta, including:

• Anambra State
• Edo State
• Benue State
• Niger State
• Kogi State

If Nigeria fully developed inland water transport, cargo and passengers could move by boat from inland states like Kogi, Anambra, and Benue to coastal cities.

A Ro-Pax vessel earns from two main streams:

• passenger tickets
• vehicle and cargo transport (cars, buses, trucks)

A typical medium Ro-Pax ferry carries:

• 800–1000 passengers
• 150–200 vehicles per trip

Now imagine Nigeria building 10 major Ro-Pax routes across its rivers and coastline, operating about 20 vessels.

Routes could include:

• Onitsha to Port Harcourt
• Warri to Lagos
• Lokoja to Delta State

Each vessel could generate tens of millions of dollars annually.

Across the network, that is over $600 million in direct revenue every year.

Once tourism, logistics, port activity, hotels, restaurants, and trade are factored in, the total economic value could exceed $2.4 billion annually.

And guess what? With this, we have reduced pressure on highways, lower logistics costs, reduced congestion at airports, and created thousands of jobs.

Countries like the Philippines and Norway use Ro-Pax ferry networks as national transport infrastructure.

Now imagine Nigeria expanding that vision further.

Imagine tourism and waterway agreements with other West African countries.

• Lagos to Tema in Ghana
• Benin Republic to Bonny Island
• Coastal ferry routes across the Gulf of Guinea

The opportunities are PLENTY.

We have the resources.

We have the geography.

What we need is leadership that puts the country first.

Because with the right vision and the right people in government, Nigeria can truly become heaven on earth.

The funds we spend on presidential yachts, unnecessary renovations, or buying cars for judges, etc could build infrastructure that benefits millions of Nigerians. But we have leaders who are blind to this. Selfish leaders.

Nigeria is supposed to be a 1st world country.

The attached picture is what a ro-pax vessel looks like.
It accommodates both passengers and cars/trucks, etc.

[Sunny Elem @ElemSunny]

This is a thoughtful thread. But it mixes two different things that must be separated if we want clarity: moral truth and human systems of success.

Let me simplify it.

There are many games in this world.
But there is only one standard of truth.

First, on “different definitions of good.”

That sounds right on the surface, but it breaks under logic.

If good is whatever each person defines, then:
- Theft is good to the thief
- Corruption is good to the corrupt
- Violence is good to the violent

At that point, the word “good” loses meaning.

Even societies that disagree on many things still agree on basics:
- stealing is wrong
- betrayal is wrong
- unjust killing is wrong

Why? Because conscience is not random. It is wired.

As The Bible puts it in Romans 2:15, the law is “written in their hearts.” Even people who don’t read scripture still feel right and wrong.

So no, people don’t have completely different definitions of good.

They have different levels of alignment with what they already know is right.

Now to the harder part:
Why do people who seem “wrong” still succeed?

Because success in human systems is not the same as righteousness.

Look at Ecclesiastes 9:11:

“The race is not to the swift… nor riches to men of understanding… but time and chance happen to them all.”

In plain terms:
Life on earth runs on systems. Strategy. Power. Timing. Networks.

So someone can win the game of power and still lose the game of life.

That’s why history is full of men who rose fast and fell hard.

About the political figures you mentioned.

What you’re seeing is not “different truths.”You’re seeing different interests.

One leader benefits a group, and that group calls him “good.”Another group suffers under him, and calls him “bad.”

That’s not morality. That’s perspective shaped by outcome.

Now the quote:
“With the money this man has made, even in his next life, he can never be poor.”

That’s emotionally powerful, but logically weak.

No one transfers wealth across lives.
Even within one lifetime, wealth is fragile. Markets crash. Empires collapse. Health fails. Happiness eludes.

Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 16:26:

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”

That question has never been answered with money.

On war and “Thou shalt not kill.”

The command in Exodus is better understood as “do not murder.”
It condemns killing, every form of force. Because life is precious.

Still, your observation stands: people often use God to justify their side.

That’s not God changing.
That’s humans bending God to fit their agenda.

On education vs success.

You’re right again in observation, but not in conclusion.

School teaches structure.
The world rewards application, risk, and leverage. Some people learn those outside school. Some learn them inside. Some don’t

So it’s not “education doesn’t matter.”
It’s “education alone is not enough.”

Now the deepest part of your post:

“Are we playing different games?”
Yes. But not in the way you framed it.

There are two layers:
1. The visible game
Money, power, influence, status
2. The invisible game
Character, conscience, accountability, eternity.

Many people optimize for the first.
Few think seriously about the second.

That’s why you can see someone celebrated publicly but empty privately.

“Why do good people die early?”

This question assumes length of life equals value of life.

It doesn’t.

Some lives are short but complete.
Some are long but wasted.

The real metric is not duration. It is direction.

Final thought.

The world is not confused about good and evil. People are.

And when understanding is weak, emotion fills the gap. You said that part well.

But the solution is not to abandon truth and say “everyone has their own.”

The solution is to sharpen understanding so emotion no longer leads.

Because at the end of it all:

You can win every game people clap for
…and still lose the only one that truly counts.

Thank you for your thoughtful post.

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