Nigeria-based Critical Thinking Education Initiative’s inauguration is on March 5, 2026
by Piyush Mathur
Following several years of preparatory work, Genesis Eririoma—who previously worked as a pastor in Nigeria’s Delta State and the capital, Abuja—is ready to inaugurate his non-profit, non-governmental organisation, the Critical Thinking Education Initiative.
Mr. Genesis Eririoma, the Founding Chair and Co-Trustee of Nigeria’s Critical Thinking Education Initiative (Image credit: Genesis Eririoma, 2026)
The inauguration will take place in Abuja on March 5, 2026. (Thoughtfox will put out a notice a week prior to the inauguration with further details regarding this event.)
Using the abbreviated name CriThink, the organisation will aim to free Nigeria’s school education from rote learning and religious frameworks by attempting to incorporate critical-thinking skills into its curricula.
The organisation will also have a public-facing portal that will focus on taking forward the work of the Africa Enlightenment Centre (AEC) by reaching out to Nigerians and other Africans generally and striving to get them to appreciate, embrace, and promote evidence-based thinking and analysis.
The AEC itself started out in November 2023 as a WhatsApp-based collaboration between Eririoma and Emmanuel Emerald Oki; on January 6, 2024, it launched a Facebook page, followed by a YouTube channel on January 24 the same year; however, it was never registered as an organisation.
As for CriThink, it is the brainchild of Eririoma, who has had the support of his wife, Oghenerukevwe Genesis, in bringing it to its imminent inauguration.
In a February 5, 2026 Facebook exchange with Thoughtfox, Eririoma credited his wife, who runs the Abuja-based Supa Soft Kitchen, for her consistent collaboration on this endeavour.
Ms. Oghenerukevwe Genesis, the co-trustee (with her husband, Mr. Genesis Eririoma) of Nigeria’s Critical Thinking Education Initiative
Previously—in a Facebook post made on January 27, 2026—Eririoma had announced CriThink’s successful registration with Nigeria’s Registrar General of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The registration itself was finalised a day prior.
Eririoma’s announcement had highlighted ‘the promotion of critical thinking, logical reasoning, evidence-based inquiry, and independent thought’ as the organisation’s core mandate in the education sector, and ‘empowering people with the ability to think clearly, question responsibly, and reason objectively’ as its broader mandate for people at large.
This mandate puts CriThink firmly in the middle of an advancing wave of the reason movement that has been gaining strength in Nigeria (say, via Dr. Leo Igwe’s Critical Thinking Social Empowerment Foundation) and in other parts of Africa (say, via Accra Atheists).
Screenshots of CriThink’s ‘Certificate of Incorporation’ and Eririoma’s Facebook announcement about it are included in this report. It may be useful to note that in its post-registration avatar, the organisation has Eririoma and his wife as its co-Trustees—with Eririoma to serve as its Chair, and his wife as its Secretary.
This is a screenshot of a digital photo of the ‘Certificate of Incorporation’ granted by Nigeria’s Registrar General of Corporate Affairs Commission to the Critical Thinking Education Initiative, declaring Genesis Eririoma & his wife, Oghenerukevwe Genesis, as its ‘Trustees’. (Image credit: Genesis Eririoma)
This is a screenshot of the January 27, 2026 Facebook announcement made by Genesis Eririoma about his organisation’s successful registration in Nigeria. (Image credit: Genesis Eririoma)
The organisation has a dedicated website that can be accessed via this secure link: https://crithink.com.ng/