"I USED TO BELIEVE NIGERIANS ARE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, BUT DESPITE OVER 500 VACANCIES SINCE 2024, WE ARE STILL STRUGGLING TO FIND CANDIDATES WHO MEET GLOBAL STANDARDS." - MONIEPOINT CEO
Founder of Moniepoint, Tosin Eniolorunda, has sparked conversation online after opening up about the company’s struggle to find qualified Nigerian talent despite hundreds of job openings. Speaking candidly, Eniolorunda revealed that the fintech made a bold move in 2024 to hire only Nigerians, but the outcome has been tough. “In 2024, we made a decision that we will no longer hire from any other place than Nigeria. And we chopped the cane in 2025,” he said. According to him, the company currently has about 500 vacancies but is struggling to fill them. “Not only could we not find people at the quality and the quantity we needed them, the few people that we found were not up to the global standards,” he added. The tech boss stressed that the challenge goes beyond local competition, noting: “I’m competing globally, my biggest competition, they are from China.” Eniolorunda didn’t hold back in pointing fingers at systemic issues, particularly Nigeria’s education system and s...