We believe that most of Nigeria’s citizens do not have the right understanding of what the level and scope of interaction should be between the State and themselves. In the course of our work spanning six years across four countries, we note a dearth of active citizens.

In Nigeria, our work covering 17 States extensively to reach 750,000 citizens online and offline, debates on national issues that should be fact-driven will often straddle the lines of ethnicity, religion, and political partisanship. We see that beyond what directly benefits them, citizens are not suitably equipped to use fact-based engagement to demand transparency and accountability.

This predisposes them to exploitation and political manipulation, retarding the sustainability of Nigeria’s moves to being a fully democratic nation.

Our philosophy is to create a nest to, harbor and build active citizens, taking them through curricula with the capability to initiate, articulate and maintain conversations on demanding effective governance. This is also a space to blend civic innovation with various facets of governance.

We see a visible area that intersects art, design, data, and advocacy with public finance and democracy – one with the capacity to birth social innovations that improve the quality of thought processes and thought leaders, ultimately driving Nigerians towards the highest levels of civic education.

Here is a place with the infrastructure, social capital, established demographic, and a trusted team ready to pioneer a system that pushes Nigeria towards democratic sophistication, with the added benefit of impacting her regional and continental peers.