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Corporate Social Responsibility of Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) for Sustainable Community Socio-Environmental Development Among the Ogba People of Rivers State

Professor Deekor, I H, Dr Chidinma Dokubo, Ededeh, Ataije Susan

Abstract

The study investigated Corporate Social Responsibility of NAOC for Sustainable Community Socio-Environmental Development among the Ogba people of Rivers State. The main purpose of the study was translated into two specific purposes, two research questions and corresponding two hypotheses to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study consisted of 694 members of Ogba people in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA. The entire population of 694 members of Ogba people was used as the sample because it was a manageable size for research of this magnitude. Researcher’s designed structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts. Two of the experts from the Department of Adult Education and Community Development (the researcher’s supervisor inclusive) and one expert of the Field of Measurement and Evaluation, all from Rivers State University. Cronbach alpha reliability method computed with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24.0 to obtain coefficient of 0.76 was used to test the reliability of the instrument. Out of the entire 694 copies distributed, only 653 copies were retrieved properly filled, this constitutes approximately 94 percentage of the distributed copies. Data obtained was analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significant level. The major findings revealed that Ogba people from Omoku, Obrikom and Idu opined that to a high extent NAOC CSR on environmental projects contributes to sustainable community development among Ogba people in Omoku, Obrikom, and Idu. The finding also revealed no significant difference in the mean rating of Ogba people from Omoku, Obrikom and Idu on the extent NAOC CSR on environmental projects contributes to sustainable community development among Ogba

Keywords

host communitycorporate social responsibilitysustainable developmentsocio-

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