NDPID - Key Persons
Annah is the Pioneer and still the President of NDPiD.
She is an experienced and certified Risk Manager with strong background in Project Management, Accounting and Finance.
She has trained Board and Senior Executive Management Team members on the framework of Strategic Risk Management and to ensure that Procedures and Processes relating to risk management, compliance with the law and regulations, are effective and embedded within organisations.
Furthermore, she contributed articles in Stronger, the ALARM (The Public Risk Management Association) Journal. She has over time acquired extensive Professional and Leadership experience in business and academics.
Annah is noted for her strong diplomatic skills and natural ability to cultivate relationships, maintaining and building consesus among diverse group of people for the common good.
She is committed to fighting injustice, inequity anywhere at anytime. She has impeccable character traits of honesty, integrity transparency, fairness, objectivity, selflessness, truthfulness, patience etc. These have all contributed to NDPiD's and her success, as an NGO and President, respectively.
Annah holds a Post Graduate Degree in Risk Management from Middlesex University, as well as, a degree in Accounting and Finance. She has also attended several Continuous Professional Development Courses, including, 2017/2018 Master Class on Risk Management in Banking and Finance for Professional Risk Managers, City University, London; Procurement and Development Course for Practioners; Contract Management and Project Management, organised by the Chartered Institute of the British Computer Society.
Her hobbies include, reading, travelling and advocacy.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Environmental Consultant
Benaebi Benatari Oguoko is an Environmental Consultant by Training and Higher Education. He has vast experience of research into the Niger Delta environment, the local history of the people of the Niger Delta, and Post-conflict management/education of the Niger Delta and its people.
In order to remain up to date, he has undergone further training programmes in areas such as Biofuels, Energy Resources, Extending Water Resources, Integrated Safety, Health, and Environmental Management, Understanding the Environment: Flows and feedback, Environmental Management and Organisations, Effects of Pollutants on the Aquatic Environment.
He has worked professionally in Social Care, Social, and Supported Housing within London and the counties and on various local Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development initiatives in the Niger Delta-Nigeria. He also actively volunteers for his local community and is a member of several community organisations for the welfare of local people.
He holds a BSc (Hon) in Environmental Science from the London Metropolitan University (University of North London) 1997
Dr Onduku is an expert in environmental diplomacy, public policy, international politics, human rights law, peace and conflict resolution, ecumenical work and international development. He has coordinated programmes ranging from community development, peace education and organisational development. His research endeavours focus extensively on the activities of social movements, oil and environmental politics, democracy and human security. He has worked at the grassroots level in peace education through community programmes in the crisis-ridden oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria.
Dr Onduku has worked as a University Researcher on intercultural human rights focusing on selected documents on international and comparative law at the St Thomas University School of Law, Miami, USA. He has also been engaged in collaborative research projects such as the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) funded project on "Public Policy, Oil and Environmental Conflicts in the Niger Delta" (July - Sept. 2001); and the MacArthur Foundation-funded project on "Public Policy and Communal Violence in Nigeria" (June 1999 - March 2001).
Dr Onduku served on the editorial board of the Human Security Perspectives Journal of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Graz, Austria; the Peace, Conflict and Development Journal of the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK; the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review of the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, Florida. He was an Article Reviewer for: Reinvention: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, The University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University, UK (2008); and Children, Youth and Environments Journal, of the University of Colorado, College of Architecture and Planning, Boulder, USA
Dr. Onduku is currently engaged in organisational research and transformational leadership for not-for-profit and public institutions. He holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methods from the University of Bradford, UK. In addition, he holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, USA; an Advanced Postgraduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the European Peace University in Stadtschlaining, Austria; and postgraduate degrees in International Relations (MSc) and Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He has served as part of the Bradford District Care Trust Spiritual Care Steering Group for the National Health Service (NHS) and currently serves as an Ecumenical Officer of the Churches Together in England; a member of the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) of the Bradford Metropolitan District; and as a School Governor in two local schools in the North of England where he resides with his wife Andrea Onduku and three children.
Keziah Suzzy Joseph, hails from Ogbia Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. An active humanitarianist with the Nigerian Red Cross Society and Rotary Club till date; an activist (Pioneer Female Student Union Executive at the Niger Delta University) and member Ijaw Women Connect as well as other organisations. She is a strong believer of change for the betterment of Niger Deltans at large. She is very passionate with the affairs of God and a strong believer of issues of peace and justice. Hence her commitment to uphold and be a part of the struggle and voice for the Niger Deltans as they are highly marginalised and neglected, which ought not to be considering the enormous natural resources gifted by God to the region.
She frowns at the fact that the Niger Delta region remains backward with poor or no amenities. Keziah has a passion to care and serve, hence, she's involved in series of voluntary organisations and community services. She served in the London Luton Airport. She's great with leadership skills, communication, team working and interpersonal skills. She's also a family oriented individual. She holds a BNSc degree in Nursing and MSc in Public Health from University of Bedfordshire. She also has Certificates in Health, Safety and Environmental Management (HSEM) with the Nigerian Institute of Safety Professionals (NISP); Health Safety and Environment courses (Level 1 -3) and a Diploma in Desk Top Publishing, et cetera.
Martins Biu is from Patani Local Government Area in present Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He works as an IT consultant both locally and internationally, helping several businesses deliver true value and reduced overhead costs by leveraging emerging technologies, best practices, and innovation.
Martins is an astute believer in the principles of fairness, equality, and inclusion, his vision is to pursue these principles to every fabric of the Nigerian State in hope to achieve the same for the oil-rich Niger Delta region and whose environment which has been severely exploited and damaged from poorly managed oil exploration activities.
He holds a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology from Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.