The Lagos Business School (LBS) began in 1991 as a small institution called the Centre for Professional Communications (CPC), offering management courses relevant to the Nigerian business environment. It is owned by the African Development Foundation (ADF), a Nigerian not-for-profit educational foundation. In January 2002, the Federal Government granted approval for the establishment of Pan-African University, and thus the Lagos Business School became the first school of the University, able to offer its own Executive MBA programme in the same year. The full-time MBA programme was added in 2003 to develop younger professionals as functional managers with global perspectives and practical management knowledge relevant to the Nigerian business environment. A doctoral programme started in 2006 in response to the School’s need for more research work to support the practice of management in Nigeria. The MBA programme runs for 21 months, divided into 2 years of 3 semesters each. A semester is 11 weeks of lectures, and is followed by a 2-week break before the next semester begins. The EMBA is delivered in six 14-week semesters spread over two sessions for a period of 24 months. A session begins in January and ends in December. LBS offers other general management programmes designed to help business professionals acquire a holistic perspective of the organisation, and integrate their functional expertise into the general view of the business and its environment. The Chief Executive Programme (CEP) is exclusively for Chief Executives, the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) for Executive Directors and members of Management Teams, the Senior Management Programme (SMP) for managers with over three years of experience as managers and the Owner-Managers Programme (OMP) for entrepreneurs who manage and are substantial owners of their own companies.

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