Ademola Osindero Wins Award for Building Globally Competitive Technology From Africa
Ademola Osindero, founder of Lagos-based Stackchase Limited, was named winner of the “Developing Globally Competitive Technology Solutions from Africa” award at the 2026 Nigeria Innovation Awards. The award was presented on Tuesday, 6 October, as the 11th Nigeria Innovation Summit closed at the MUSON Centre, Lagos.
Mr Osindero was among the summit’s participants, and Stackchase was one of the organisations backing the event, which InnovationHub Africa organised under the theme “Innovating in the Age of AI.” Of the ten recipients announced, two were individuals honoured by name. The other was Engr. Alex Omaghomi, Group CEO of Zilex Holdings.
The award rewards a bet that Stackchase has made from its base in Victoria Island: African organisations should not have to rent their most basic work tools from abroad.
A stack built at home
“Africa can build its own technology stack,” Stackchase says on its website, describing a company founded on that belief. It traces its engineering roots to Lopworks, an IT consulting and systems integration firm that dates to 2003. Mr Osindero is also listed as chief executive of Lopworks.
The company’s flagship is Ration, a workspace that puts mail, chat, meetings, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and forms under one login. Stackchase hosts it on bare-metal servers that it says it owns and operates, in a Lagos data centre that is live today. Casablanca, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Cape Town are listed as the next regions.
The pitch is control. “Your data stays on the continent that governs it,” Ration’s website says, a line aimed at ministries, banks, hospitals and telecom operators that must answer for where their records sit and who can reach them. One policy engine governs access across every module, according to the company, and an audit trail records grants, shares and moderation.
Built for different kinds of organisations
Ration comes in three editions. Stackchase runs the SaaS edition for customers. Managed service providers can host the MSP edition for their own clients, and the on-premise edition runs on an organisation’s own hardware. Staff can keep using Outlook and their phones, the company says, and migration from an existing platform is supported.
Pricing is per user per month and billed in local currency, which the company says spares customers any exposure to the dollar. As listed on its website, Ration Start costs N2,000, Ration Do N4,000 and Ration Scale N6,000, with two months saved on annual plans. Prices are also quoted in Ghanaian cedi, Kenyan shilling, South African rand, US dollar, British pound and euro.
Stackchase names the Ogun State Government and the Nigerian Army among the public institutions using its platforms to communicate securely and share data. Ration’s website says it is already deployed in state government and defence.
More than a mail platform
Ration sits at the centre of a wider product line. The company lists Ration Pulse for transactional email, Ration Engage for relationship management and Ration Brace for helpdesk and service management. Redhawk, its enterprise integration and API platform, and EmployMinds, a jobs platform for Africa, run alongside it. Musi.ng, a user-generated content platform, is listed as coming soon.
The product line reflects the theme the summit put on the table. Its discussions included a session titled “Building Africa’s Digital Future: Why We Must Own the Technology We Depend On,” and its programme returned repeatedly to local capability, intellectual property and trusted AI. Stackchase’s work sits squarely in that conversation.
Working with Stackchase
Organisations can start on Ration Cloud at app.ration.works in minutes, or speak to the sales team about a pilot, a migration or an on-premise deployment. The company’s office is at 3a Olaletan Street, Oniru, Victoria Island Extension, Lagos, with visits by appointment. Product support is at [email protected], and general enquiries go to [email protected].
For Mr Osindero, the award adds a national stamp to a company that has spent its early years building quietly. With a Lagos data centre running and four more regions planned, Stackchase is set to find out how far African-built collaboration software can travel.
