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Mrs. Fanny Kumah, the Director of Project Citizen of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has said the project is one the best ways the country could nurture dedicated, qualitative and good leaders with analytical abilities. She said it gives the youth skills and dispositions that would equip them with experiences that would enable them to handle the nation in a better way when they are given the opportunity. Madam Kumah was addressing the opening of the first in a series of the annual NCCE's Project Citizen in Tamale on Wednesday in which nine second-circle institutions in the Tamale Metropolis are competing for the best school with good policies that would address some of the challenges facing the country. The Project, which started in 2006, has over 100 schools participating and the regional best school each year competes for the national best while attractive prices would be won at each stage of the competition. Madam Kumah appealed to the youth and the public to participate and make inputs where necessary at every national policy initiative that would enrich the country's democracy. Madam Alice Achana, the Northern Regional Coordinator for Higher Institutions of the Ghana Education Service (GES) lauded the initiative and said it mould future leaders. She said it would also give the youth problem solving skills and research techniques that would make them to be able to go through with ease when they get to the tertiary institutions.