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Timeline

The university had its origin as the Lagos Business School (LBS), established in 1991. The federal government approved the university as Pan-African University in 2002, and the LBS became its first school. The Ajah Campus was completed in 2003 and in 2010 work began on the Ibeju-Lekki campus. In September 2011 the university launched the

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, a website created by Jess Castellote, a Spanish architect that includes over 400 works from 81 artists, including pioneering Nigerian artists such as Aina Onabolu and

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and emerging artists such as Richardson Ovbiebo and Babalola Lawson. In November and December 2011 the EDC, for the first time, marked the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), with a series of events in Lagos. Many Nigerians have ambitions to start a business, and the conference was extremely well-attended. EDC has been the GEW host for Nigeria since then. The University's Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) works with the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Department of the

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(IFC) to provide the SME Toolkit Nigeria. This gives free business management information and training to small businesses. In July 2011 British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke at the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, discussing aid, trade and democracy. He spoke in favor of an African

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area, and of increased trade with Britain. In May 2013 its name was changed to Pan-Atlantic University, in order to avoid confusion with the

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of the African Union. On 17 November 2014 the University launched its first ever undergraduate programmes in its new campus at Ibeju-Lekki. On 19 October 2019 the Pan-Atlantic University's Art museum, YSMA will officially be open to the public with two simultaneous inaugural exhibitions.

Alumni

* Yomi Owope * Babajide Sanwo-Olu * Ibukun Awosika *

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* Ibidunni Ighodalo * Olalekan Olude *

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References

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