Barely two years after the enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) has mobilised representatives of host communities from five epicentre states of oil and gas extractive activities in the region for a week-long capacity building on the implementation of the Act. It was held in collaboration with Ford Foundation. …

Discussants and other participants at the fourth annual lecture of Penpushing Media have called for what they described as “co-regulation” of the social media to achieve sanity in the use of the platform. They followed the lead of the guest speaker, Dr Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, who is the Regional Director for West Africa at Ford Foundation. In her paper titled, Social …

The Ford Foundation has identified a legacy of the colonial administrative system inherited by African governments, and which no administration has had the political will to address, as responsible for setback in the continent. Ford Foundation’s Regional Director for West Africa, Dr Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye explained that the colonial system was rigged against the people, adding that, everything was done to …