Upskill Educational Initiative is a Company Limited by Guarantee, created to address the critical gaps in teacher quality and quantity across Nigeria. We provide transformative education, research, and training that foster learner-centered teaching, professional identity, and a commitment to educational excellence.
Nigeria faces a disconnection between the skills teachers acquire and the competencies the job market demands—coupled with an increasing need for qualified educators. Upskill bridges this gap by launching educators on a path of lifelong learning and equipping them with 21st-century teaching skills.
To provide education, research, and training that promotes learner-centeredness, teacher identity, and service to the teaching profession and community.
Impacting education, creating opportunities.
Train a Teacher. Change the World.
With a first degree in Economics, Mr. Fusi Akinkugbe is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Christy Onabu is a highly experienced professional, skilled in Business Entrepreneurship, Process Improvement, Stakeholders' Engagement, Leadership, and the Downstream Oil & Gas Sector operations. She is a Certified Leader & Instructor with Napoleon Hill Foundation with proven leadership skills in managing, developing & motivating teams to achieve, exceed & expand targets.
Toki Mabogunje is a business development consultant interested in the growth of enterprises on the African continent. Toki’s core interests are value chain development, project financing, strategic organization and management, legal and business advisory services, and business support services.
Olapeju E. Sofowora is one the founding Partners of Abax-OOSA Professionals (Chartered Accountants) specializing in Tax Consulting, Human Resources and Business Advisory Services. She started her over thirty years’ experience at Coopers & Lybrand (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) where she acquired her Audit Practice License.
Olu Shodimu as he is fondly called, is a consummate service-oriented personality with a great passion for meeting the challenges of the needy in the society. He has an uncommon interest in attending to the protection of the disadvantage and down trodden and those with psychological and physiological challenges.
