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 Andah
Board Secretary
John Andah
Board Secretary
Our board secretary is a fine-grained development journalist with a knack for turning narratives into movements. With over 15 years of experience across print, broadcast, and majorly online media, John has edited and published over 15,000 online journalistic reports, including advocacy-packed stories.
But beyond impactful storytelling, John is a communications strategist with a proven track record of delivering media and development-focused projects for both local and international brands. Whether it's combatting misinformation and disinformation, promoting quality education, gender justice and citizen participation in governance, you will find John's expertise and experience richly valuable.
In 2021, when the world was grappling with a pandemic and an infodemic, John led a dynamic team of reporters at ImpactHouse to produce over 8,000 hard-hitting reports for Covidhub.ng. Their work didn’t just bust myths; it saved lives. By 2022, he actively participated in the #EducationNOW9ja campaign, amplifying calls for better education policies, especially for girls across Nigeria.
John has a passion for supporting African journalists with technical skills to master the art and science of advocacy journalism that directly addresses the development needs of everyday citizens, ensuring their voices are heard.
And when John is not leading teams or designing campaigns, he can be found passionately talking about the Super Eagles of Nigeria, and uncovering what no one 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.