Founder, NextGem Orphans & Vulnerable Children Care Foundation

I stand on stages to make orphaned children impossible to look away from.

At 22, I run a foundation building real institutions for Nigeria’s orphaned and vulnerable children — from a national orphanage games to a CARE Act policy campaign. I speak on faith, purpose, and what it takes to build something that outlasts you.

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My story

It started with a service year in Bayelsa State.

In March 2025, during my service year in Bayelsa State, God placed it on my heart to volunteer at an orphanage. What started as weekly visits to Destiny Child Orphanage soon became a deeper commitment. I knew I did not want to become just another temporary presence in the children's lives. Through prayer, the idea for the Orphanage Games was born to give the children visibility and attract long-term support.

That idea grew into NextGem Foundation — now working with three government ministries in Bayelsa State (Sports Development, Women and Children Affairs, and Youth Development), and pushing a piece of legislation, the CARE Act, that would guarantee subsidised medical care, education access, and mandatory helplines in every registered children’s home in Nigeria.

Today, NextGem exists to stand in the gap of providing opportunity, mentorship, exposure, and consistent support where life has created loss. We remain committed to running this foundation with integrity, transparency, and faith in the God who makes it all possible.

“This is more than charity. It’s an institution being built to last decades — and it needs people willing to think beyond themselves.”

Speaking topics

Three keynotes, drawn from what NextGem sees every day.

Trust in God: Building in Your Youth

Why age was never the qualifier for solving hard problems.

The story of the Orphanage Games and NextGem, told as a case study in what happens when young Christians stop waiting for permission to think beyond themselves.

As Christians, we have access to the most intelligent being in the world — which means we're called to solve problems bigger than us, regardless of age. This talk makes the theological case and backs it with a real, ongoing example.

ChurchesYouth leadershipFaith-based conferences

Education in Orphanages: The Realities

Favour is 15. She's in Primary 5. Here's why.

When Favour's father died, she moved between a grandmother's house, an aunt's, and finally an uncle's — with long stretches where she wasn't in school at all, but selling in the market instead.

In the same orphanage, 13-year-olds are already in JSS2, because they had a more stable childhood. The psychological and emotional gap that creates is severe — and it's a gap that understaffed, underfunded orphanages (sometimes 30+ children to a handful of staff) simply cannot close alone.

This talk lays out how NextGem's volunteer program is built to close that gap, and makes the case for what the community — schools, companies, individuals — can do to help.

Favour is 15, and in Primary 5. Not because she isn't capable — because no one was there.

TEDx-style stagesEducation & policy audiencesCorporate CSR

Opportunities for Orphans

The next Mozart or the next Usain Bolt could be growing up in an orphanage right now.

Talent pipelines for orphans aren't just good for the children — they reduce crime, and they give young people proof, early, that they have something to give back to society rather than take from it.

The Orphanage Games — sports, academics, the arts — exist to showcase that talent in a way that attracts real funding and partnership, not pity. With the right care and attention, these children paint, play piano, and compete at a level that changes how people see them.

TEDx-style stagesYouth leadershipCorporate & funder events

The proof