Governing Board
We are led by a Governing Board comprising two components – a three-member Board of Trustees and a seven-member Board of Advisors.
These are experienced development practitioners with special interests in our programme areas.
Trustees
Mr Femi Aderibigbe
Founder/Board Chair
Mr Femi Aderibigbe
Founder/Board Chair
Femi is a tech-savvy administrator and development practitioner with about 15 years of professional experience in government relations, non-profit/programme management, grant-making and development communications. His project roles span across 19 cities in Nigeria, and Ghana, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast with team members of diverse orientations and ethnic nationalities.
The seasoned community outreach specialist, who is adept at working with a wide variety of community demographics to formulate beneficial programmes and issue resolutions, has an impressive record of implementing successful community services and engagements.
Femi, who has maintained a consistently positive and respectful attitude toward all citizens and traditional, local and state authorities, served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Education Reform Bills appointed by the President of the Eighth Nigerian Senate.
John Onivehu Andah
Board Secretary
John Onivehu Andah
Board Secretary
John is a fine-grained journalist and a communications strategist. He has over 15 years of combined communications and journalism experience in print, broadcast, and mainly online media.
Working with dynamic teams of reporters and researchers in the past ten years, John has produced and published more than 15,000 reports on human rights, education, health, politics/governance, etc. across Nigeria and Africa.
The development communication proponent has actively participated in advocacy campaigns geared towards fostering social change for sustainable development in Nigeria and Africa. He managed a vibrant team of reporters that produced over 8,000 reports for Covidhub.ng in a 2021 campaign against the spread of misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. He was also an integral member of the communications team that drove the #EducationNOW9ja campaign in 2022 and 2023.
John, who holds a Master of Science degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Bachelor of Science degree also in Mass Communication from Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria, loves the smell of a good lead and has a penchant for finding out something nobody else knows.
Mrs Adenike Arigbabu
Member
Mrs Adenike Arigbabu
Member
Adenike is an experienced journalist, a social development facilitator, and human resource development expert.
Her professional work in the media is focused on positively improving the lives of young people. For this, she ran a youth column in the Nigerian Guardian newspaper, facilitated knowledge/skills-building programmes and provided mentoring support to young people.
Adenike, who works with different civil society organisations, both locally and internationally, has great expertise in initiating, implementing, managing and facilitating development programmes. She studied Mass Communication and has been certified as a media entrepreneur by the Pan-African University.
Mr Ayodele Taofiq-Fanida
Member
Mr Ayodele Taofiq-Fanida
Member
Ayodele is a development practitioner, a media-for-development expert, and a climate change advocate. He is also a biodynamic farmer, a member and representative of Nigeria at the global network of Biodynamic Initiative for the Next Generation Network, and was Growth and Product Director at Market Women Initiative - a platform with a special focus on training and giving interest free loan to grassroots women in other to help scale their businesses.
He is a solution strategist with a strong interest in building products, processes, and serving people, helping businesses, startups, farmers as well as seasoned and budding entrepreneurs around the world get access to resources needed to grow and succeed particularly in Nigeria and across Africa.
The pioneer Executive Director of Women Green Fellowship - Nigeria’s foremost Green Business Accelerator programme - is a sustainable development trainer who was trained by the World Bank Institute/British Council as a Development Knowledge Facilitator; a trained Problem Driven Adaptation Iteration (PDIA) expert by Harvard University, Centre for International Development; a trained Supply Chain and Facility Management by Brentwood Open Learning College; and a certified Emergency First Responder trained by St John Ambulance, Canada.