From Anyigba with love: Three days of intensive coaching in leadership and life skills for young people in Anyigba..

Young people will remain in a state of ignorance and ineptitude until a deliberate effort is made to groom them and infuse them with values, skills , and opportunities to build themselves, their communities and the nation. Please do not blame them . We cannot expect people nurtured and groomed in Slavery, Colonialism, and Military Styled Government to raise forward thinking, positive thinking and confident children. it is tantamount to asking a Slave to Raise a Prince for the Palace. He cannot teach him beyond his understanding of human relations , which is that of a Slave and a Master. the Slave does not and cannot understand the sort of relationship that exists between a Prince and A crowned KING.

If we need to raise Confident, Forward thinking, reasonable intelligent and Responsible children, We need to entrust them to those skilled in the Protocols of the Palace.

We need teach them responsibility ,Individual and Communal Responsibility, Financial Responsibility, Accountability of time and related resources.
We need to teach them life skills: the Art of speaking well, excellent grooming, Managing conflict and Managing Relationships , Writing and journaling for effective communication, Presentation skills, Building and managing their Personal BRANDs, Entrepreneuring , the beauty and Joy of Volunteering, the Art of Giving, Fundraising for Common Good.
Harnessing People For change.

Learning the power of the MEDIA, Having a palace styled Mindset and culture takes a lot and we cannot afford to entrust such a sensitive responsibility to slaves with low self esteem, Inferiority complex , who lack creative thinking, who are educated by rote memorization,Who cannot see opportunities for enterprise but see Government and governance as a source of Income, not a place of contribution but of distribution of the common wealth to a privileged few.

I challenge you today to ask yourself what kind of children would you rather have. children who always obey you without questioning, or children who always ask why? the children who obey are doing kids! children who ask why are thinking kids! look inwards again and ask yourself which of this two kinds of children have changed their worlds?

I do not advocate rebellious kids, they do us no Good , but fuel the passion of thinking children. we cannot solve any problem with the same level of thinking we were when we created them, when you have the privilege of a form of thinking at an escalated level from the problem, acknowledge it and nurture it.

My passion to see A visible difference in the quality of young people raised in Nigeria today has informed the establishment of Project STRETCH as a an intervention Plan to Raise TODAYS LEADERS equipped with Life Skills, Values Reorientation and a Mindset of Common Good as against Individual Satisfaction. Thinking community development and Good governance is difficult in a country with over 70% living below the Poverty Line of 1 dollar a day.

Its Pretty difficult i must say to convince a hungry man with no hope for the next meal to refuse an offer of 1000 naira for 'a simple lie that won't hurt anyone' . Only a man with strong values who believes in his values and who is willing to remain honorable can resist that. All hope is not lost however if we teach our children to think at the Macro level and Proffer solutions to communal problems even at their level. Then we would be raising Responsible children who can refuse a tempting offer when you are not looking.

Our children are going to have to compete on a global field of play where the rules are near standardized. If they lack the requisite skills to make a success of themselves it would be because we have not given it to them.
Human Capital is the greatest Asset any nation can possess but the quality of that capital and what it can deliver will be dependent on the investments in its development.

Today we Lament that our graduates are not getting Placements, as over 200,000 walk the streets in search of any job at all even though they studied specifics.


PROJECT STRETCH is passionate about Raising a Fresh Generation Of young People Who are Self aware, Responsible , Skilled and community centric, and academically excellent. I believe in the power of young people and I will commit my life to Build this crop of young persons.

Raising A new generation of leaders, Building Communities.

Promoting Africa and Africans