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Companies

Tertiary EducationTertiary education / executive education·democracy·Founded 2002 (NUC licence; Lagos Business School 1991)

Pan-Atlantic University (Lagos Business School)

Status: Operating (Pan-Atlantic University Foundation).

Ownership

Indigenous Nigerian ownership

Why it is on record

Promoted by the Pan-Atlantic University Foundation (Opus Dei prelature, Nigeria), Pan-Atlantic is the parent of the Lagos Business School (LBS) — the only AACSB-accredited business school in Nigeria and the only Nigerian school in the Financial Times Top 100 Executive Education ranking (continuously ranked since 2007; peak top-50 globally for Open-Enrolment programmes). The de facto executive-MBA pipeline for Nigerian corporate leadership.

Record held

Only AACSB-accredited business school in Nigeria; only Nigerian school in the Financial Times Top 100 Executive Education ranking (continuous since 2007); host of the Africa-wide CEO Programme.

Deep dive

Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, was incorporated in 2002 around the Lagos Business School (founded 1991). It is the institutional anchor of business and executive education in Nigeria — the LBS MBA is the only Nigerian programme consistently ranked by the Financial Times in the global MBA tables. The university is affiliated to the Opus Dei prelature.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.