At Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum, Job Creation, Youth Empowerment Take Cenre Stage

At Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum, Job Creation, Youth Empowerment Take Cenre Stage

At the just concluded 5th edition of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum, five African Presidents and thousands of young African entrepreneurs converged at the most influential gathering in the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.  Job creation and youth empowerment were...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation To Host 5,000 African Entrepreneurs

Tony Elumelu Foundation To Host 5,000 African Entrepreneurs

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s foremost champion of entrepreneurship, will host its 5th Annual Forum — the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs – on July 26 – 27, 2019. The two-day event will take place at the iconic...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Hosts European Commission, Finance Institutions, Others In Brussels

Tony Elumelu Foundation Hosts European Commission, Finance Institutions, Others In Brussels

At a time when Europe’s relationship with Africa is high on foreign policy and developmental agenda and with the European Union beginning to deliver on its 2017 External Investment Plan, targeted at attracting investment and job creation in Africa, the...
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Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu Assumes Office as CEO, Tony Elumelu Foundation

Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu Assumes Office as CEO, Tony Elumelu Foundation

Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, former Director of Partnerships and Evaluation, Tony Elumelu Foundation has assumed her new role as the Foundation’s CEO on April 1. [Ifeyinwa becomes the third CEO and the first African to become the Chief Executive Officer of the...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation To Announce Selected Entrepreneurs For 2019 Programme  March 22

Tony Elumelu Foundation To Announce Selected Entrepreneurs For 2019 Programme March 22

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) will announce the selected applicants for the 2019 cohort of the Foundation’s flagship Entrepreneurship Programme on March 22, 2019. The event, which marks the 5th round of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme, will...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Opens Applications for 5th Cycle of $100m Entrepreneurship Programme

Tony Elumelu Foundation Opens Applications for 5th Cycle of $100m Entrepreneurship Programme

The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications for the 2019 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.  The Programme is a 10-year, $100...
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Five Years of Spreading Luck – Everyone Needs a Little Help

Five Years of Spreading Luck – Everyone Needs a Little Help

In business the role luck plays in success and personal achievement is rarely discussed. If luck is mentioned, it is done with slight condescension, and usually dismissed as a product of hard work, not deserving significant attention. While hard work...
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Strategic Role Of Entrepreneurship In Africa’s Economic Development, By Elumelu

Strategic Role Of Entrepreneurship In Africa’s Economic Development, By Elumelu

5,000 African entrepreneurs, private and public sector leaders and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem convened in Lagos on Thursday, October 25, 2018 for the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum. The event which is the largest gather...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation, GIZ, To Empower Young Entrepreneurs In East, West Africa

Tony Elumelu Foundation, GIZ, To Empower Young Entrepreneurs In East, West Africa

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading entrepreneurship philanthropy, is partnering with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Government’s Agency for International Cooperation.   GIZ will support the...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation To Launch Digital Platform For African Entrepreneurs At 2018 Forum

Tony Elumelu Foundation To Launch Digital Platform For African Entrepreneurs At 2018 Forum

Africa’s leading entrepreneurship focused philanthropy, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, is launching the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem –  TEFConnect.   TEFConnect will officially be u...
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Shell To Sell $2B Nigeria Oil Assets

Shell To Sell $2B Nigeria Oil Assets

The Anglo-Dutch oil major is discussing selling oil mining licenses 11 and 17 to Heirs Holdings Ltd., a company run by Nigerian tycoon Tony Elumelu, the people said. Included in the sale are infrastructure assets such as a natural gas-fired...
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Tony Elumelu Pledges N500m For Delta Entrepreneurship Scheme

Tony Elumelu Pledges N500m For Delta Entrepreneurship Scheme

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Founder and Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony O. Elumelu, CON has pledged N500 million to create an entrepreneurship programme exclusive to indigenes of Delta State.  He made the pledge after presenting 50 beneficiar...
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Elumelu, Kim, Weiner To Open Forum On  Digital Economy for Africa

Elumelu, Kim, Weiner To Open Forum On Digital Economy for Africa

Chairman, Heirs Holdings and Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu will join Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group and Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO at the opening debate of the ‘Digital Economy for Africa’ Forum in Washington, D.C...
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Tony Elumelu, UBA Chairman To Tour East Africa On Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure

Tony Elumelu, UBA Chairman To Tour East Africa On Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure

Foremost Entrepreneur and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu will lead a 5-day working visit to East Africa, where he will meet with national leaders of Kenya and Uganda.    In his capacity as Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr....
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