Happy fiftieth birthday
Fifty years of building companies, serving Lagos and giving back.
Born in Lagos
6 October 1976
Dr. AyoOgunsan
Agege to Alausa: fifty years in one city.
He grew up poor in Agege, paid his own school fees, built a group of companies in Ikeja and now leads the fund that equips the people who keep Lagos safe.
- 1976Born and raised with very littleAgege
- 2005Founds Executive MotorsIkeja
- 2020Joins the Security Trust Fund boardAlausa
- 2025Appointed to lead the FundAlausa
Security cannot be imposed. It must be co-created with citizens. When people understand that their lives and livelihood depend on it, we stop pointing fingers and start sharing the work.
From his vision for the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, The Sun, November 2025
Agege, with very little
Ayodele Ogunsan grew up in Agege, Lagos, in what he calls an extremely poor background. From his first year of senior secondary school he organised tutorials for classmates and used the money to pay his own way.
His father, Engr. Akinola Ogunsan, served as an engineer in the Nigerian Air Force and later as a flight engineer with Nigeria Airways, and cared deeply about education. His mother, Madam Emiola Ogunsan, was a trader. Education and enterprise run through everything he has built since.
“I am glad that I was not born with a silver spoon.”
20+
years building companies
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companies in the Executive Group
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partner universities abroad by 2016
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public and civic roles
Four arenas, one conviction.
“What brought me into business is not about profit making but about touching lives and impacting society.”
Since 2005
Enterprise
Founder and chairman of the Executive Group: automobiles, higher-education training, travel and hospitality.
Since 2020
Public service
Executive Secretary and CEO of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, after five years on its board.
Since 2008
Education
Executive Trainers links Nigerian vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts with universities abroad.
Since 2023
Philanthropy
Chairman of the AKEM Foundation: scholarships, orphanages and grants for young entrepreneurs.
From Lagos
Lagos, then the world
Executive Trainers takes Nigerian vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts to partner universities abroad, and his own executive education has taken him to the same campuses. In 2024 he carried the case for people-oriented policing to an international audience in Doha.
- BostonHarvard Business School
- WashingtonGeorgetown University
- HoustonUniversity of Houston
- OxfordOxford Brookes University
- LondonBrunel University London
- WolverhamptonUniversity of Wolverhampton
- StellenboschStellenbosch Business School
- AccraGIMPA
- DohaAfrica Security Watch, 2024
- SingaporeManagement Development Institute
Partners abroad
Security in Lagos draws on partners beyond Nigeria. Since taking office he has met consular missions in the city and studied policing practice abroad.
Lagos State Security Trust Fund
A year equipping the people who keep Lagos safe
In the year since his appointment on 31 October 2025, the Fund has made 65 separate handovers of vehicles and protective gear to about 35 police, military, naval, railway and maritime units.
- new vehicles to security agencies
- 46new vehicles to security agencies
- bulletproof vests and as many helmets
- 380bulletproof vests and as many helmets
- pairs of operational boots
- 3,370pairs of operational boots
- raincoats
- 4,340raincoats
Feb 2026
A fleet from Mikano
Mikano Motors handed the Fund a fleet of Max pickups for operational use, one of several private-sector donations to the Fund this year.
Feb 2026
Campus security
At the Lagos Campus Security and Safety Summit: a patrol vehicle each for LASU, LASUED and LASUSTECH, and 240 pairs of boots.
Apr 2026
Anti-riot kits
180 anti-riot kits for the Rapid Response Squad and the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Agency, with 1,000 pairs of boots.
May 2026
Army and Navy
Fifty bulletproof vests and fifty ballistic helmets each for the Army's 9 Brigade and NNS Beecroft.
Jul 2026
Seven tactical vehicles
Seven fully equipped tactical vehicles for the Police Violent Crimes Response Unit.
Jul 2026
NDLEA and FRSC
Raincoats, vests and helmets for the NDLEA Lagos Strategic Command, and 100 raincoats for the FRSC Lagos Sector Command.
Aug 2026
NNS Beecroft
Fifty bulletproof vests, fifty ballistic helmets and 100 raincoats for naval operations on Lagos waters.
Aug 2026
Ten vehicles from CIG Motors
CIG Motors donated ten vehicles worth over ₦300 million to the Fund for Lagos security operations.
Sep 2026
Maritime Police
Helmets, vests, boots and raincoats for 30 officers of the Maritime Police Command, with a patrol pickup pledged.
On the ground
Footage from the field. Press play for sound.
What he stands for
Drawn from his 2024 lecture in Doha on people-oriented policing and his plan for the Security Trust Fund.
Read his visionMove from enforcement-led policing to citizen-centred policing that closes the trust deficit. Officers who live and serve in their communities build trust and gather better intelligence.
Security is strongest when agencies, communities, infrastructure managers and businesses work as partners. The trust fund itself is a public-private model.
Data-driven, intelligence-led operations: CCTV, drones, citizen reporting tools and joint inter-agency command.
Stronger audits, regular performance reports and funding tied to outcomes, so that every naira given for security can be traced.
Mentorship, vocational training and anti-cult and anti-drug campaigns. He calls it the policing of love.
Campus security should be a strategic national priority, because a safe campus is one where students feel secure enough to dream and innovate.
Recognition
Honours from security, media and civic organisations.
- 2026Medal of HonourLagos Neighbourhood Safety Agency
- 2024Golden Star Award for Security & Safety Advocacy in West AfricaAfrica Security Watch Awards, Doha
- 2024Lifetime Achievement AwardClassic Africa Merit Awards
- 2024Shield of Security HonourNational Association of Online Security News Publishers
- 2023Iconic Man of the YearNational Association of Online Security News Publishers
- 2022Man of the Year, SecurityThe Pride Magazine
What colleagues say
“Even before this appointment, you had always been working behind the scenes, galvanising society to support the police.”
Chairman, Police Community Relations Committee, Lagos
“Every aspect of life that he enters, he strives to excel there.”
Diamed Hospital
“The Lagos State Security Trust Fund under your leadership has continued to demonstrate that it is truly a friend of the police.”
Maritime Police Command
“He impacts the lives of everyone who crosses his path.”
Lagos State Police Command
DAO @50
The Young Executive Forum celebrates
He founded the Young Executive Forum, popularly known as YEF, to mentor young professionals, and has guided its members for years. On 4 October 2026, two days before his fiftieth, they gathered in DAO @50 shirts to celebrate with him.
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Scholarships at his alma mater
To mark his fiftieth birthday, the Young Executive Forum awarded scholarships to ten students of Yaba College of Technology on his behalf, the school where he studied Business Administration.
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Send a birthday wish
On 6 October 2026, Dr. Ogunsan turns fifty. Leave a message and it will be gathered with others from friends, colleagues and Lagosians and presented to him.