Enhancing the Public Sector’s Capacity to Stimulate Private-Sector Growth The Tony Elumelu Foundation is pleased to announce the placement of the first Tony Elumelu Fellow in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The initiative is in line with the Foundation’s intent to provide strategic support to key ministries, enabling a stronger and more …
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation Launches the Tony Elumelu Fellowship Programme with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation Announces “The Elumelu Legacy Prize” to Promote Academic Excellence
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), a not-for-profit institution committed to the economic transformation of Africa by enhancing the competitiveness and growth of the African private sector, has announced that it will offer annual prizes in perpetuity to top-performing graduating students at several universities across Nigeria. The annual prizes will be for top undergraduate and graduate …
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Global Visibility for Nigeria’s Fast Growth Entrepreneurs: The Tony Elumelu Foundation Joins Forces with Allworld Network to Launch the Nigeria Fast Growth 50
Today, the Allworld Network Inc. (co-founded by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School) and The Tony Elumelu Foundation announced the launch of the Nigeria Fast Growth 50 (Nigeria50). This is a pioneering effort to showcase and rank the most innovative and dynamic fast-growth private companies in Nigeria. Nigeria is soon expected to become the …
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Western Union and USAID Announce Winners of Second African Diaspora Marketplace
Innovative Competition Acts as Catalyst for Business and Job Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa At the second African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM II), 17 U.S.-based entrepreneurs were awarded matching grants to fund innovative business plans and promote economic growth in seven countries in sub-Saharan and North Africa. The grants will match ADM winners’ own funds to support …
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s Leadership Development Programme Starts Second Year
Building on the successful launch of its African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP) for MBA students and graduates in 2011, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is pleased to announce that the programme will feature a wider selection of African countries in its second year, growing from three to seven countries that cut across east, west, central …
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Only Africans Can Develop Africa, Says Nigerian Philanthropist Tony Elumelu
Nigerian banker and philanthropist Tony Elumelu was recently in Washington D.C., where he reiterated his belief that Africans themselves will be at the forefront of the continent’s economic renaissance. “No one can develop Africa but us [Africans].” That was Nigerian philanthropist Tony Elumelu’s message to international business leaders, global philanthropic organizations and Western development partners …
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Tony O. Elumelu Advises Western Development Partners on Africapitalism
‘No One Can Develop Africa But Us’ Tony O. Elumelu, C.O.N., Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, in Washington, DC this week, told groups of philanthropy, business, and development leaders that Africa’s private sector must be the leading player in contributing to the continent’s economic transformation. “We are now the world’s fastest growing region,” said …
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Co-Creation Hub Partners with The Tony Elumelu Foundation to Fund 20 Nigerian Startups
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an institution dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa, is partnering with Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHub), Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space dedicated to catalysing creative social technology ventures, in an effort to encourage innovative ideas that could help transform …
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Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority Joins African Programme to Nurture Talent
As part of its objective to nurture talent in Africa, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has partnered with The Tony Elumelu Foundation in Nigeria under their African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP) to facilitate the placement of MBA students (Associates) from Business Schools around the world in an internship programme. The programme commences in May 2012. …
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Blair, Elumelu launch International Fellowship Programme to strengthen Africa’s private sector and promote economic growth
Tony O. Elumelu, MFR, and Rt. Hon. Tony Blair were in Freetown on Tuesday to formally kick off the first part of a joint innovative programme aimed at supporting transformational governments in Africa. The Blair Elumelu Fellowship Programme (BEFP) – a partnership between The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative …
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