{"id":16914,"date":"2026-06-20T12:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/nigerian-students-acknowledge-iitas-efforts-in-alleviating-unemployment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:29:37","slug":"nigerian-students-acknowledge-iitas-efforts-in-alleviating-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/nigerian-students-acknowledge-iitas-efforts-in-alleviating-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Des \u00e9tudiants nig\u00e9rians saluent les efforts de l'IITA pour r\u00e9duire le ch\u00f4mage"},"content":{"rendered":"The body covering every Nigerian undergraduate has cited\u00a0<a title=\"Visit IITA website\" href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IITA<\/a>\u00a0for its excellent efforts in creating employment for Nigerian graduates every year. When members of the National Association of Nigerian Students \u2013 NANS Zone D (South-West), visited IITA in Ibadan, on 16 March, Oludaisi Afolabi, leader of group, said IITA facilitates employment for young people, and also generates agricultural innovations to help Africa surmount its greatest challenges\u2014hunger and poverty.\n<div id=\"attachment_2105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_DSC_1711.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2105 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_DSC_1711.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Afolabi presenting a certificate of credence to IITA on behalf of all Nigerian undergraduates.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2105\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afolabi presents a certificate of credence to IITA on behalf of all Nigerian undergraduates.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<a title=\"Visitez la page de profil de Kenton Dashiell sur le site Web de l&#039;IITA\" href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/dashiell-kenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenton Dashiell<\/a>, IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery received the group. Dashiell counseled the students to keep working hard for the good of the country.\n\n\u201cIITA is partnering well with Nigerian graduates. We have discovered that graduates from the country are very energetic, talented, smart, motivated, and ready to work. IITA is convinced that this generation of young men and women are the ones that will take Nigeria to the level where it is supposed to be. IITA will do its part to help with that. Do not stop working hard. IITA will introduce you to its youth program, because it is relevant and based on modern agriculture; the program will teach you that agriculture is profitable.\u201d\n\nResponding, Afolabi said, \u201cThank you for receiving us; we are here to acknowledge your good efforts in facilitating employment and food security and reducing incessant hunger in Africa. We also want to sustain our mutual relationship with IITA. Thank you again and well done.\u201d\n\nThe undergraduates were led to the IITA Youth Agripreneurs to see the involvement of youth in agribusiness, and learn how the youth create collective enterprises, in a gender-responsive manner. and generate income.\n\nImpressed by what they saw, Afolabi, on behalf of the students, presented a certificate of credence to the Institute, for their efforts in improving livelihoods, reducing unemployment, and also transforming agriculture in Nigeria.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body covering every Nigerian undergraduate has cited IITA for its excellent efforts in creating employment for Nigerian graduates every year.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16915,"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":[2013],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[195],"class_list":["post-16914","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iita-news-no-2370youthyouth-agripreneursyouth-unemployment","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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