Corporate Social Responsibility of Nigeria Agip Oil Company for Sustainable Development Among the Ogba People of Rivers State

This study investigated the corporate social responsibility of the NAOC for sustainable development among the Ogba people of Rivers State. The main purpose of the study was translated into three specific purposes, three research questions, three corresponding hypotheses to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The study population consisted of 718 members of the Ogba people in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA. The entire population of 718 members of the Ogba people was used as the sample because it was a manageable size for research of this magnitude. The 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 and one expert from the Field of Measurement and Evaluation, all from Rivers State University. Cronbach’s alpha reliability method was computed with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science version 24.0 to obtain a coefficient of 0.76, which was used to test the reliability of the instrument. Of the 718 copies distributed, only 653 copies were retrieved and properly filled, which constitutes approximately 91% of the distributed copies. Data were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test hypotheses at a p-value of 0.05 . The major findings revealed that the Ogba people from Omoku, Obrikom, and Idu opined that NAOC CSR on education, agriculture, and infrastructure contributes to sustainable community development to a high extent. The findings also revealed no significant difference in the mean rating of Ogba people from Omoku, Obrikom, and Idu on the extent to which NAOC CSR on education, agriculture, and infrastructure contributes to sustainable community development. Based on the findings and conclusions drawn, it was recommended that Ogba people from Omoku, Obrikom, and Idu, through their stakeholders such as Community Development Committee members, youth bodies, and council of chiefs, should lobby to ensure that the subsequent CSR on education from oil firms within their environment focuses on areas that would enhance the extent of contributions to sustainable educational development among their communities.