{"id":12285,"date":"2026-06-09T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/sylvester-owobu\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:30:19","slug":"sylvester-owobu","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/sylvester-owobu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Owobu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mr. Sylvester Owobu, a Nigerian,<b>\u00a0<\/b>is the Head of Supply at the IITA Supply Chain Unit. He is based in Ibadan Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing Management Option from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo state. He has strong background and training in Procurement management, Inventory\/warehousing management, International Logistics management &amp; strategic sourcing. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">His previous employment positions were Stock Verifier, Stores Foreman, Supervisor, Strategic sourcing\/Supply Contracts, Stores Manager, Procurement Manager, Acting Head Supply Chain, and Head Supply Chain.<\/span><\/p>\nMr. Owobu is a specialist in Supply chain management, and his interest is to maximize value by ensuring a sustainable flow of goods, works, and services qualitatively, competitively, timely, and wisely through the legitimate exchange process.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Sylvester Owobu, a Nigerian,\u00a0is the Head of Supply at the IITA Supply Chain Unit. He is based in Ibadan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12286,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","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":[],"ast-content-background-meta":[]},"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"staff-type":[],"class_list":["post-12285","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/12285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/12285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"science-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/science-area?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"hub","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"crop","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/crop?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=12285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}