Nigeria - 1967 - Agriculture and Rural Development

International Institute Of Tropical Agriculture Decree 1967

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

The decree states that the institute was established and maintained as an autonomous, non-stock, philanthropic, non-profit and tax-free corporation having and exercising the functions hereinafter appearing and that the proposal aforesaid should be construed accordingly. Therefore, the government hereby decrees that an institute known as the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (hereafter in this decree referred to as ” the Institute”) would be established to exercise the functions and powers and pursue the objectives assigned to it by this Decree. The Institute shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal which shall be kept in the custody of the chairman of the board of trustees or of the director if so authorized by the board. The Institute shall also have the general responsibility for undertaking studies of and research into tropical agriculture and of providing information thereon to representatives of governments or groups or bodies of persons, interested in tropical agriculture

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January 2022

The decree states that the institute was established and maintained as an autonomous, non-stock, philanthropic, non-profit and tax-free corporation having and exercising the functions hereinafter appearing and that the proposal aforesaid should be construed accordingly. Therefore, the government hereby decrees that an institute known as the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (hereafter in this decree referred to as ” the Institute”) would be established to exercise the functions and powers and pursue the objectives assigned to it by this Decree. The Institute shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal which shall be kept in the custody of the chairman of the board of trustees or of the director if so authorized by the board. The Institute shall also have the general responsibility for undertaking studies of and research into tropical agriculture and of providing information thereon to representatives of governments or groups or bodies of persons, interested in tropical agriculture

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