Taopheek

People See Actions. God Sees Intentions.

One of life’s greatest lessons is this:
People will often judge you by your current condition, recent actions, or visible outcomes.

Few know the sacrifices you made.
Few understand your intentions.
Few see the battles you fought in silence.

So don’t live for the approval of people.

People see actions.
God sees intentions.

Focus on pleasing your Creator, for in the end, His opinion is the one that truly matters.

May Almighty Allah be pleased with you, guide your steps, and accept your efforts.

Jumu’ah Mubarak.

TAB

I recently came across the viral clips of a statement by the CEO of Moniepoint, Mr. Tosin Eniolorunda, in which he revealed that the company is struggling to fill over 500 job vacancies in Nigeria due to a shortage of qualified, globally competitive talent, despite a strong commitment to local hiring.

His remarks at The Platform event in Lagos sparked widespread debate around educational quality, salary transparency, emigration, and corporate training pipelines. However, what many commentators failed to understand is that he was merely speaking to a growing reality many entrepreneurs, business leaders, and institutions across Nigeria and Africa are already experiencing daily: the continent is gradually entering a human capital crisis.

Here are my perspectives.

TAB

“If everything depends on you, nothing is built.”

Dependency may feel like control in the short term, but in the long term, it weakens scalability and limits institutional growth.

True leadership builds systems, people, and structures that can function beyond the leader’s constant presence. Because what cannot function without you has not been fully built.

Over the past five years, I have spent fewer calendar months in Africa each year due to the growing demands of ’s North American operations. Yet the organization has continued to run because the system was never built around me alone.

Have there been gaps and misses? Absolutely.

But those moments have also revealed areas requiring improvement, rebuilding, and stronger alignment. That is the nature of institution building; systems evolve, people grow, and leadership matures continuously.

The important thing is that there is a structure that allows people to learn, perform, lead, and make critical decisions without waiting for the CEO.

A good example is Mrs. Lum Ambe , who joined the Nigerian team as an HR professional and evolved into a Project Manager, Business Consultant, and now a leader within the Learning & Talent domain.

That is the real goal of leadership:
not building dependence,
but building capacity.

TAB