I had a few friends who were graduates working as factory workers and earn below $60 per month. What about other youth who were not graduates but have great potentials? We were still waiting for a messiah who can sponsor our education to enable us earn as much as graduates did. Aside this, one of the imbalances we had was our environment. We had poor road network, bad road, bad drainage system unhealthy water and every other thing you can imagine. But we were not concerned, we were happy we were alive, the environment was the least of our worries. We believed the most important thing for us is to eat and "dirty no dey kill black man" meaning blacks don't get killed by dirt.

But a life changing experience for me was when I decided to attend a seminar in a bid to earn money. I never knew the lectures would be about volunteering and community service, I thought it was just an orientation for a job offer. After the programme I was hoping that, just like every other seminar I attended I was going to be paid after the long talk. I wasn't, instead we were encouraged to go back to our various communities to volunteer towards any cause we were passionate about and change our community. It was the worse thing anyone could do to me, after spending my own money on transportation.

When I got back, I started to think if its possible to change my community. Was I really able to do so without any educational qualification, no finance and at my young age? I started to analyze all the things that needed to change in my community from A-Z and soon I found out where to start.

I realized other constituencies were better than that of my local government and are provided with basic amenities. I went down to the root cause which is bad governance, something had to be done about this, maybe through advocacy. So I registered as a volunteer coordinator for Forward Nigeria, an organization that advocates for good governance in Nigeria. I used the platform to speak for my people and encouraged them to vote wisely. This was the beginning of my journey to advocacy and community service. I got involved in other organizations which helped me grow professionally and also helped me further my education. Then I got selected as 20th Eco generation Regional ambassador to Nigeria, this gave me a huge platform toake exploit in the environmental space. Now I have been able to impact my community positively beyond my major.