{"id":15728,"date":"2026-06-20T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/bells-university-delegation-discusses-partnership-possibilities-with-iita\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:30:33","slug":"bells-university-delegation-discusses-partnership-possibilities-with-iita","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/bells-university-delegation-discusses-partnership-possibilities-with-iita\/","title":{"rendered":"Une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation de l'Universit\u00e9 Bells discute des possibilit\u00e9s de partenariat avec l'IITA"},"content":{"rendered":"A team of delegates from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellsuniversity.edu.ng\/\">Universit\u00e9 de technologie de Bells<\/a>\u00a0visit\u00e9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>\u00a0on 4 July to discuss areas of possible partnership with the Institute.\n\nThe team, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jeremiah Ojediran, comprised top officials of the university. They were received by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/dashiell-kenton\/\">Kenton Dashiell<\/a>, IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery.\n<div id=\"attachment_4982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1314px\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28523\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bells-University-p01-300x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1314\" height=\"657\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VC Prof Ojediran (in blue suit) explaining the purpose of his visit to Kenton Dashiell, DDG-P4D.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThe delegates requested IITA\u2019s hand in partnership on research, business incubation, and capacity development.\n\nBells University is expanding its frontiers into more robust agricultural studies and agribusiness, with the newly introduced Bachelor\u2019s program in Agripreneurship. This has been as a result of the influence of IITA ambassador, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also a Bells University proprietor.\n\nThe team was taken on a tour of IITA facilities including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iitabip.org\/product\/aflasafe\/\">Aflasafe<\/a>\u00a0et\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iitabip.org\/product\/nodumax\/\">Nodumax<\/a>\u00a0production factories,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youthagripreneurs.org\/\">Jeunes agripreneurs de l'IITA<\/a>\u00a0(IYA), and iWET water management demonstration sites.\n\nDashiell said, \u201cWe are delighted to receive you and partner with you. We already have superb collaboration with the University of Ibadan, and we are sure that partnership with Bells University would yield success.\u201d VC Ojediran also believes that partnership between IITA and Bells University would speed up the pace of agripreneurship and agricultural studies in the university.\n\nIn addition, it was agreed that delegates from IITA would be sent to Bells University to see the Agripreneurship Center and have further discussions on when a Memorandum of Understanding that guides both parties would be signed.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of delegates from Bells University of Technology visited IITA on 4 July to discuss areas of possible partnership with the Institute.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15729,"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":[1472],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[197],"class_list":["post-15728","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bells-universityiita-news-no-2495nigeriapartnership","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-197"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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