While serving as a Management Officer and Chemical Engineer in the Government of Eastern Nigeria, Engr. Humphrey C. N. Adibe was amongst the participants in the first Arthur D. Little – Nigeria Industrial Development Management Training Program in the United States.

The Nigeria Industrial Development Management Program was directed by Arthur D. Little Inc. under the sponsorship of The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and with the cooperation of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

The special Master of Business Administration module was conducted at Syracuse University, New York and the Arthur D. Little School of Management (now Hult International Business School) headquarters at Acorn Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from August 1964 to July 1965.

The Program included thirty courses and approximately 750 hours of instruction, plus on-the-job training, special projects, field trips, and investment promotion. Instructors for the Program were drawn from Arthur D. Little’s professional staff, the staff of Syracuse University and supplemented by members of the faculties of Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy – Tufts University, Boston University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The participants were Humphrey C. N. Adibe (Eastern Nigeria Government); Joseph A. Adediran (Western Nigeria Government); Adejimi Adeusi (Nigeria Federal Government); Benedict R. N. Aghazie (Eastern Nigeria Government); Alfred A. A. Egunjobi (Western Nigeria Government); Innocent E. Ejikeme (Nigeria Federal Government); Godwin E. Eze (Nigeria Federal Government); Raphael C. Ezeukwu (Eastern Nigeria Government); Godwin U. Ndiolo (Eastern Nigeria Government); Michael O. Titiloye (Northern Nigeria Government) and Abubakar T. Tofa (Northern Nigeria Government).

A luncheon was organized for the participants at the end of the Program at the American Academy of Arts and Science, Brookline, Massachusetts on July 9, 1965. General James M. Garvin, Chairman of the Board of Arthur D. Little Inc., gave the welcoming remarks and presented certificates later, while Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United Nations, H.E. Chief S. O. Adebo delivered the main address.

During the Program, one of Humphrey Adibe’s field trips took him to an Oil Tank Farm Facility in Puerto Rico in 1964 as seen in the picture below.