As we’ve previously announced, The Tony and Awele Elumelu Prize for Academic Excellence is soon to be discontinued to allow a focus on entrepreneurship through the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). However, as we close-out this programme, we continue to have meaningful sessions with our awardees and respective Universities and have experienced first-hand the impact …

Originally Published on Spear’s -3 November 2015 As commercially creative as it is chaotic, Lagos, with some UHNW help, is emerging as a sub-Saharan answer to California’s tech hub says Clementine Wallop. I am sitting in a co-working space, busy with articles and emails. Around me, on primary-coloured chairs in a bright room with a …

  Today, 29th October 2015, marks five years since the beginning of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). We’re thrilled to celebrate this landmark and celebrate the people that have brought this Foundation to life through their successes- our Alumni. Over the course of five years, we are proud to have run programmes geared catalysing entrepreneurship and …