{"id":17233,"date":"2026-06-20T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/advanced-afdb-presidential-party-visits-iita-abuja-station\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:50:58","slug":"advanced-afdb-presidential-party-visits-iita-abuja-station","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/advanced-afdb-presidential-party-visits-iita-abuja-station\/","title":{"rendered":"La d\u00e9l\u00e9gation pr\u00e9sidentielle avanc\u00e9e de la BAD visite la station IITA d'Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 276px\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1279\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/300_abuja.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Tarawali leading the visitors to the Youth Training Center and Agripreneurs\u2019 Work Station that is under construction.\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1279\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarawali leads the visitors to the Youth Training Center and Agripreneurs\u2019 Work Station that is under construction.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA two-member delegation comprising the Regional Director of the African Development Bank (<a title=\"Visit the African Development Bank website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/\">BAD<\/a>), Dore Ousmane,\u00a0 and the AfDB Chief of Staff and Director of Cabinet, Sipho Moyo, were at the IITA Abuja Station on\u00a0 8 September. The purpose of the visit was to assess the activities of the\u00a0<a title=\"Visit the IITA Youth Agripreneurs website\" href=\"http:\/\/youthagripreneurs.org\/\">Jeunes agripreneurs de l'IITA<\/a>\u00a0(IYA), Abuja, see the progress of the construction work at the Youth Training &amp; Processing Center, and also review ongoing youth development programs being implemented at the Station, in preparation for the visit of the AfDB president,\u00a0<a title=\"Visit Akinwumi Adesina page on the African Development Bank website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/about-us\/organisational-structure\/presidents-corner\/\">Akinwumi Adesina<\/a>\u00a0later this month.\n\nThe delegation was received by the Head of Station,\u00a0<a title=\"Visit Gbassey Tarawali profile on the IITA website\" href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/tarawali-gbassey\/\">Gbassey Tarawali<\/a>. \u00a0IYA-Abuja members made a presentation on their activities, emphasizing plans of owning profitable agribusiness ventures in future.\n\nThe presentations impressed the visitors who in turn expressed satisfaction with the enthusiasm of the Agripreneurs towards agribusiness as a viable solution to the problem of youth unemployment in Africa. They also enquired about the status of the business plans of the IYA members for mobilizing resources from the AfDB-funded\u00a0<a title=\"View story &apos;Innovative programme to improve employment and income outcomes for young people&apos; on the African Development Bank website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/news-and-events\/article\/innovative-programme-to-improve-employment-and-income-outcomes-for-young-people-14217\/\">ENABLE Youth<\/a>\u00a0project. In their responses, the IYA members affirmed that their business plan development was in progress and will be ready for review and submission to commercial banks by October, 2016.\n\nOusmane and Moyo appreciated IITA\u2019s Management for the quality mentorship, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial quest that has been instilled in the Agripreneurs.\n\nThe team was taken on a tour around the Station where IYA members provided detailed explanations about their plots and fish ponds.\n\nOusmane will visit the Station with Amadou Oumarou, Task Manager of the ATASP-1 Outreach Program, to develop a detailed plan for the President\u2019s visit","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-member delegation comprising the Regional Director of the African Development Bank.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17234,"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":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17233","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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