{"id":15050,"date":"2026-06-20T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/bowen-strengthens-partnership-with-iita-to-promote-student-and-youth-entrepreneurship\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:07:43","slug":"bowen-strengthens-partnership-with-iita-to-promote-student-and-youth-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/bowen-strengthens-partnership-with-iita-to-promote-student-and-youth-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"BOWEN renforce son partenariat avec l'IITA pour promouvoir l'entrepreneuriat des \u00e9tudiants et des jeunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>\u00a0continually partners with government and private organizations, including universities, to advance agricultural activities and promote digitalization in Africa.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bowen.edu.ng\/\">BOWEN University<\/a>\u00a0has been a partner of IITA for many years, especially agricultural and capacity development programs.\n\nOn a recent visit, Professor Joshua Ogunwole, Vice Chancellor, BOWEN University, accompanied by the University\u2019s principal officers, sought to strengthen existing partnerships and identify new areas of collaboration with the Institute.\n\nThe Vice Chancellor and his team were welcomed by IITA Management staff. In his welcome remarks, IITA Director General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/sanginga-nteranya\/\">Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>\u00a0stated that IITA is happy to collaborate with BOWEN, being a top-notch university. \u201cWe want a win-win situation for BOWEN and IITA,\u201d he said.\n\nIITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/dashiell-kenton\/\">Kenton Dashiell<\/a>, reaffirmed the DG\u2019s words. He said BOWEN prepares students to be entrepreneurial and innovative, thus, making it more than the regular traditional university that focuses on education alone.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/soresougrynoma\/\">Zaina Sore<\/a>, Head of Capacity Development Office (CDO), shared CDO\u2019s activities and IITA\u2019s longstanding history of partnering with universities. She highlighted areas of partnership available to universities such as internships, Industrial Training (IT), National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), volunteering, graduate fellowships, training courses, and sabbaticals. She explained how lecturers and students could benefit from these programs.\n\nOgunwole explained that the present administration in BOWEN came with a restructuring agenda and are eager to start the work. He emphasized how IITA has made a tremendous impact in Africa, making it an institute with whom others want to partner.\n\nHe identified new areas of collaboration, including capacity development for students and staff, research, digitizing the library, and youth empowerment on entrepreneurship and soft skills development. \u201cWe do not just give degrees; we want our students to be entrepreneurs. We also want capacity building for Baptist youth throughout Nigeria so that they can be profitably engaged,\u201d he said.\n<div id=\"attachment_8068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27405\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BOWEN-strengthens-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives of BOWEN University and IITA signed MoU to seal partnership.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/awobajo-kayode\/\">Kayode Awobajo<\/a>, Head of IITA\u2019s Project Development and Administration Unit (PDAU), explained the partnership agreements IITA has with BOWEN. The institutions have signed various memoranda of understanding (MoU), including one earlier this year. \u201cThis is an opportunity to promote and strengthen what both institutions already have,\u201d he said.\n\nResponding to the suggested areas of partnership, Dashiell noted that IITA and BOWEN have similar values and goals. He pointed out that this partnership would benefit both institutions. \u201cI am excited about the areas of partnership, and everyone has a role in moving the partnership forward, not only the DG and Vice Chancellor,\u201d he said.\n\nThe team went on a tour of the Institute and later signed an MoU to seal the partnership.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IITA continually partners with government and private organizations, including universities, to advance agricultural activities and promote digitalization in Africa.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15051,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1144],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[199],"class_list":["post-15050","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-boweniitaiita-news-no-2594","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-199"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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