Lagos Business School explores partnership with IITA to advance agribusiness leadership and innovation

In a visit aimed at forging a strategic partnership, a team from Lagos Business School (LBS) met with the IITA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director for Africa, Dr Simeon Ehui, alongside members of the Institute’s senior management and scientists at IITA headquarters in Ibadan.

The collaboration seeks to integrate LBS’s strengths in executive education, leadership development, and agribusiness strategy with IITA’s robust agricultural research and innovation expertise across Africa’s food systems value chain.

Speaking at the meeting, Victor Banjo, Director of Executive Education at LBS, provided an overview of the school’s agribusiness program, emphasizing hands-on learning through practical field experiences. Highlighting the potential for synergy, Banjo proposed that collaboration with IITA would offer cohorts direct exposure to research-based innovations.

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