Overview

The Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute Act establishes a training organization known as the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (the Institute) in Ilorin, Nigeria, effective from 1st February 1980. The Institute is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, empowered to sue and be sued. Its governance is vested in a Board of Governors (the Board) comprising a chairman and two other members appointed by the President, the Director of the Institute, the Federal Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, a representative from one of three universities (University of Ilorin, Ahmadu Bello University, or University of Nigeria, Nsukka) in rotation, and a representative of Kwara State Polytechnic. Appointed members serve three-year terms, renewable once, and can be removed by the President if not in the Institute's interest. Members may resign by written notice to the Minister. The Institute's primary functions include: identifying management training needs in agricultural organizations and technical employees in the rural sector; developing and implementing training programs to meet those needs; establishing a residential campus at Ilorin and possibly elsewhere; setting up an audio-visual production unit to produce teaching support materials; and promoting any other activities that help achieve its purposes. The training approach must be highly job-specific, practical, and use modern methods of management skills development. Other provisions address staffing, pensionable service, financial arrangements (including power to accept gifts and borrow money), annual estimates, accounts, audits, annual reports, staff regulations, legal procedures (suits against the Institute, service of documents, restriction on execution against property), power of the Minister to give directions, and definitions. The Act also includes a Schedule detailing proceedings of the Board.

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