Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh

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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Kingy 👑 @Og_koded94]

@Arsenal please do you know the answer?

[Tosin Eniolorunda @Eniolorunda]

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.

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[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

Aswear 😂

[Yinka Ogunnubi @yinkanubi]

I think you should be renamed Confederation of Moroccan Football (CMF)

[CAF Online @CAF_Online]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐀 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. 🇸🇳🏆

#TotalEnergiesAFCON2025

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

😂 AFCON 🏆

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

How Morocco won the AFCON 2025

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

I think the @thenff should ask the Moroccan FA how to win a petition on paper rather than on the pitch.

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

@thatverydarkmnn has raised his voice, but true change won’t come from one man alone. Every life lost to reckless trucking is a call for collective responsibility: Dangote, regulators, civil society, and all of us. Silence is complicity. #RoadSafety @FRSCNigeria @PoliceNG

[Ojora Babatunde @ojbsports]

Ain’t no party like the Lagos Party. 🎉

#MissionX

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

#MissionX is possible. Congratulations to the @NGSuper_Falcons, the ladies gave their best today. Champions of Africa.
#WAFCON24 @SSFootball #hereforher

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

@lloydatiku @Darejohnson Manure WhatsApp meeting… 🤣

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

@AdewaleYusuf_ Well done Wale.

[NGSuper_Falcons @NGSuper_Falcons]

🔢 Your line-up for our #WAFCON2024 opener.

#NGATUN #MissionX #SoarSuperFalcons

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

Fuel your hustle with coffee and courage: greatness brews one cup at a time. ☕️

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

@OgaNlaMedia Hold your peace. If I hear pim!!!!! But that money big ooo.

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

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[🇳🇬 Super Eagles @NGSuperEagles]

So much brings Nigeria and Ghana together. Lets talk about the love that unites us ahead of tonight’s #TheUnityCup. Join Us this afternoon #NaijaGhanaLove #TheUnityCup #NGAGHA

[NGSuper_Falcons @NGSuper_Falcons]

Super Falcons Roster for two games vs Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon #MissionX #SoarSuperFalcons

[Stephen Chibudo Mgbechi Moses Osuh @senatorsum]

@OgaNlaMedia It’s a complex issue

[Abia Warriors FC @AbiaWarriors]

Congratulations to everyone 🎉🤩

#warriors 🔴
#abiawarriors