{"id":16532,"date":"2026-06-20T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/british-high-commissioner-visits-iita\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:20:45","slug":"british-high-commissioner-visits-iita","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/british-high-commissioner-visits-iita\/","title":{"rendered":"British High Commissioner visits IITA"},"content":{"rendered":"His Excellency Paul Arkwright, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, visited IITA, Ibadan, on 2 November, to familiarize himself with the institute and establish grounds for collaboration.\n\nIITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/dashiell-kenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenton Dashiell<\/a>, accompanied by some senior management staff, received the High Commissioner and his Communication Manager and Political Adviser, Adewale Adebajo. DDG Dashiell gave a breakdown of IITA\u2019s achievements and success stories to date, and emphasized IITA\u2019s commitment to improving agriculture in Africa, focusing on the need for collaboration.\n<div id=\"attachment_3003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 812px\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_4148_1024.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3003\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_4148_1024.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of His Excellency receives a NoduMax souvenir from Plant Manager, Ayodele Alonge.\" width=\"812\" height=\"485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3003\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Excellency receives a NoduMax souvenir from Plant Manager, Ayodele Alonge.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\u201cIITA has been working with partners for the past 50 years to generate agricultural innovations to meet Africa\u2019s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. This cannot be easily achieved without your support and commitment; we need you to step in and contribute to help us secure the path to food security,\u201d he said.\n\nEvelyn Ohanwusi, Interim Head, IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA), gave an overview of their journey, highlighting enterprises achieved and areas of intervention. \u201cWe are young, vibrant, and skilled youth who are looking for opportunities to scale up while engaging more youth in agribusiness. If the right technology can be put in place, I believe we will go a long way in solving the problems of malnutrition and unemployment in Nigeria,\u201d she added.\n\nThe Commissioner expressed his interest in IITA\u2019s activities, most especially the youth program. \u201cI am honored to be in the midst of determined youth and management. This is my first visit and I need you to win more souls to the agribusiness world. If only Nigeria can have more focused youth like this, then it is certain we can feed ourselves through agriculture, which is one of the solutions to Nigeria\u2019s problems,\u201d Arkwright stated.\n\nDuring the tour of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iitabip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IITA Business Incubation Platform (BIP)<\/a>\u00a0facilities, including the\u00a0aflasafeTM and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.n2africa.org\/content\/nodumax-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NoduMax<\/a>\u00a0production plants, the Commissioner said: \u201c\u2026I have heard so much about the institute, and with what I have seen, IITA has exceeded my expectations. I am really impressed that Africa has an institute like IITA.\u201d","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Excellency Paul Arkwright, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, visited IITA, Ibadan, on 2 November, to familiarize himself with the institute and establish grounds for collaboration.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16533,"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":[1837],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[195],"class_list":["post-16532","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-british-high-commissioniita-news-no-2409","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-195"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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