Our Story

PTBCI's Founder

Adekunle Olopade is a Nigerian public figure, entrepreneur, and life coach. Best known as a Big Brother Naija alumnus, he channeled that platform into purpose-driven work as Founder of Protect The Boy Child Initiative (PTBCI), a Lagos-registered NGO dedicated to mentoring and nurturing boys and young men across Nigeria. A multi-disciplinary background in finance, marketing, and entertainment shapes his grounded perspective on identity, growth, and well-being, alongside his voice in Nigerian social commentary and his work as a life coach.

A neglected boy doesn't disappear. He grows up and becomes someone's husband, father, or problem. You cannot build a healthy society on broken boys. Every day we look away is a boy lost to the streets, the gangs, the silence. The boy child isn't a future problem - he's a problem we can still fix today. That's the gap PTBCI exists to close.

— Adekunle Olopade

Our Journey

On International Men's Day 2025, we launched a Virtual Leadership Event, bringing together three of Nigeria's top corporate executives to confront a question we felt had been ignored for too long: how do we lead the dialogue on the boy child crisis in today's society?

It was more than a launch - it was a call to attention.

That single conversation was the seed. From it grew the work you see today - programs, partnerships, and a community committed to nurturing the next generation of men, one boy at a time.

As the work grew, so did the need for the right hands to carry it.

We appointed Omololu Shomuyiwa as Country Head and Director of Global Affairs - a Big Brother Naija alumnus based in the US, whose commitment to the boy child cause reaches far beyond the platform that first introduced him to the public. Omololu now bridges our work at home with the diaspora community that continues to champion this mission from abroad.

His appointment marked a turning point - proof that PTBCI was no longer just an idea in motion, but an organization building the leadership and structure to match its ambition.

If the Virtual Leadership Event started the conversation, Close The Gap gave it a face.

Released on May 16 - the International Day of the Boy Child - Close The Gap became PTBCI's first major content offering: a documentary confronting the boy child crisis head-on, paired with a five-day rollout across six platforms, press coverage, and digital storytelling designed to pull the issue out of the shadows and into public view.

It wasn't just a film. It was a statement - that the boy child conversation deserved the same visibility, urgency, and production value as any issue that matters.

Where We Are Now

The work continues. What began as a conversation is now a movement - with programs, partnerships, and people showing up for the boy child every day. This is where we are, and there's still more coming.

Every boy we lose to silence, we lose twice - once at home, and once to a world that never got to see what he could've been. My job is to make sure fewer boys are lost that way.

Omololu Shomuyiwa

Global Affairs - Protect The Boy Child Initiative

The boys are our concern. They should be yours too.

Every statistic above is a boy with a name. Prevention is cheaper than prison, mentorship is cheaper than rehabilitation, and a country that protects its boys raises the men it keeps praying for.

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