Charles Dukwe Shocks Nigerians with Huge Market Penetration

Charles Dukwe began the organisation Project New Nation in one room with 35,000 start up capital after an unplanned stay in Nigeria, in a dilapidated building at 94 Rumuola Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State with a simple message of citizen driven socio-economic reform and he personally conducted face to face seminars speaking to his fellow citizens to join him with their resources and together drive from bottom-up, a better country.

Today that one room is now a complex with three multi storey buildings larger in size than 90% of all corporations in Rivers State and definitely better equipped than any corporation that began the same year with same level of capital anywhere in Africa. That’s not all, the road that leads to the complex was water logged and a total swamp and every move to appeal to the state government or NDDC to do something fell on deaf ears and he took it upon himself and build the road to world class standard with street lights that are well maintained, drainage systems that flow, interlocking stones that are washed regularly and beautiful informational boards giving information on one of 50 African countries each.

That’s not all, he used the organisation resources to relocate over 24 families living across the office complex in batchers and terrible conditions and built a huge product fulfillment center on 10 plots of land creating hundreds of jobs there and brining economic activities to many idle young people. From that one room, He now has offices across African countries created over 1,000 part time and full time jobs combined and in 13 states of the country plus FCT and all the offices are fully detached duplexes giving Project New Nation more reach and national presence with Desmond Elliot, Ini Edo, Monalisa Chinda and Uche Jumbo all brand ambassadors for Project New Nation than majority of corporations and government agencies in Nigeria. He also has built one of the most expansive outbound call centers in Nigeria with room for 1,200 manned personnel in preparation for the national phone bank drive. Some Nigerian graduates who attended his interview and orientation could not believe in his big dream of creating a New Nation in Africa and they took to social media in frustration with countless number of new calling. That one room dream is now a big shock of a success