In 2017, I started my NYSC (National Youth Service Corps, a mandatory one-year program established in 1973 by the Nigerian government to involve university and polytechnic graduates in nation-building and national unity) and I served as a Teacher in a government public school within this period. I began to notice a few issues during my time as a teacher with the students I taught, they had a nonchalant attitude towards education, they had a poor foundation of certain subject areas and lack of a holistic quality education which encompasses the basic understanding of life and the purpose of education. This challenged me as I realised the quality of youths that were being formed in our government educational institutions and the adverse effect it would have long term in quality of the citizens in society. I was once a student myself and I also saw some of the limitations that came from my formal education background and I saw these same limitations with some of my fellow NYSC colleagues during my service year. So I decided to host an educative seminar for some student representatives from a few government schools, to bring an enlightenment about the importance of education (formal and informal), to create a different perspective of education and form a culture of learning and intentional growth that can shape and impact society.

After my time in NYSC, I started to research on an educational framework that was much suited for the unique nature of the Nigerian system and I realized I needed a structure that was holistic and would not make our current educational systems redundant but help students make the most of it and every other resources already available in our world today to be formed into agents of change, this was how the vision of the Light and Legacy Initiative was born.