The Apapa port district

Research & teaching · 1 min read

The port on our doorstep

Teaching operations and logistics inside the district through which most of Nigeria's trade physically passes.

The campus is at 6 Freetown Road, Apapa, inside the district through which most of Nigeria's imports and exports physically move. That was a deliberate choice, and it changes what can be taught.

Operations management, supply chain, customs, informality and congestion are not abstractions when the subject is running at scale on the other side of the wall. Students can observe a real constraint, in real time, and test whether the model they were taught explains it.

The NUTM lettering on the campus grounds in Apapa
Apapa, the port district through which most of Nigeria's trade passes.

“In Africa, for Africa” as a postcode

Most institutions make that claim in a brochure. Here it is a description of the address. The businesses that supply our placements, live briefs and most of its case material are within walking distance.

It also means the campus is not a landscaped estate on the edge of a city. Arriving students find that disorienting for about a fortnight, and then most of them find it is the point.

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