Create a Youth Agri-Business Pitch Programme for Lagos Secondary Schools

Agriculture has an image problem with Nigerian urban youth. Secondary school students in Lagos associate farming with poverty and low status, not with entrepreneurship or technology. This perception feeds a long-term talent shortage: the food system needs product designers, logisticians, agronomists, and founders, but young Lagosians are not seeing themselves in those roles. A small number of NGOs and schools have tried agri-business clubs, but the materials tend to be generic, the sessions feel like extra homework, and the link between what students learn and real economic opportunity is never made concrete. Students disengage quickly when they cannot see how a lesson connects to something they actually care about. Design a 10-session extracurricular programme (roughly one term, one session per week) for a Lagos public secondary school. Each session should be 60 to 90 minutes. The programme should take students from identifying a food system problem in their neighbourhood (a market, a school canteen, a street food cluster) through to a short business pitch on a realistic solution. Deliver a full session-by-session curriculum with learning objectives, a facilitator guide written for a teacher with no agriculture background, and a one-page student pitch template. Good work will feel genuinely interesting to a 15-year-old in Surulere or Mushin, not like a development organisation's idea of what teenagers should care about.