October 15, 2025: In Nigeria’s Ekiti State, a free community workshop on critical thinking/philosophy for children
by Dr. Piyush Mathur
The Nigeria-based Critical Thinking Social Empowerment Foundation (CTSEF) will conduct a ‘Workshop on Critical Thinking/Philosophy for Children’ in Ekiti State on October 15, 2025, a Wednesday, on the premises of the Covenant International School, located in the town of Ayebode-Ekiti.
The theme of the workshop is ‘Critical Thinking and the Culture of Teaching/Learning in Schools’; it is thus predictably pitched to the community at large, but especially to those with a stake in the local pre-college education sector (particularly the children of the school).
The workshop, however, is free and open to the wider public, just the same.
In the workshop, the organisers will seek to promote rationalistic curiosity and sceptical inquiry among the children and the local community—and to empower the latter to encourage the children to resist easy assumptions and convictions in their lives as much as in their education.
- Time & venue -
The event would start at 10 AM on October 15; its venue, the Covenant International School, has the following address:
1, Kola-Rewire Area, Along Ikole/Omuo Road, Ayebode-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
It might be useful to note here that the Covenant International School is not the same as the Covenant Academy located opposite Federal Housing Estate or the Goshen Covenant International School located in Iworoko-Ekiti. The Covenant International School, which will be this event’s venue, is a private entity owned by Mr. Abdulameed Muniru Kolawole, according to the details accessible on the B2BHint website, which also mentions that the school was incorporated on April 17, 2024.
- The phone numbers -
The organisers appear to encourage wannabe attendees to call ahead and register—and also tell them about any cancellations; for those purposes, as also for any other necessary communication, people can make calls on the following two numbers:
📞 07038924884
📞 08130593605
The above information is also displayed in the digital poster (included below) circulated by Dr. Leo Igwe—who chairs the 3-member Board of Trustees that governs the CTSEF.
This is a screenshot of the digital poster regarding the October 15, 2025 Ayebode-Ekiti event circulated by Dr. Leo Igwe on behalf of the CTSEF. (Credit: CTSEF)
The CTSEF has organised similar workshops in the recent past in other states of Nigeria; this is the first time that it is set to do so in Ekiti State.
This is a screenshot of Dr. Leo Igwe’s LinkedIn post, dated October 13, 2025, announcing the first CTSEF workshop in Ekiti State of Nigeria.
(Credit: Leo Igwe)
Making the announcement regarding this workshop yesterday, October 13, on LinkedIn, Igwe showcased it and similar workshops as evidence of the constructive or positive side of Africa’s growing rationalistic movement. Igwe stressed—on behalf of and to the movement’s leaders and contributors—the need to go beyond merely condemning ‘religious extremism and superstition-based abuses’ and instead ‘invest in promoting critical thinking and inquiry-based learning.’
In the same post, Igwe—ever on the front lines of Africa’s fight against ‘witch hunts’ and abuses inflicted upon those suspected of practising witchcraft— shared his enthusiasm regarding this workshop, underscoring its significance for Ekiti State.
‘We will make history this week. We will organise our first critical thinking/philosophy for children event in Ekiti’, his post read.
Igwe’s excitement is local—but is better approached as boundless. For in our times, ‘compassion’ may be the only global deficit to rival that of ‘reason’—which this workshop seeks to promote.