Olivia is the Founder and CEO of Pad-Up Creations, a social enterprise in Nigeria manufacturing chemical-free washable and reusable sanitary pads. Her company has provided over 1 million girls and women in 13 African countries with access to sanitary pads that will last them a minimum period of 1 year while creating 93 permanent jobs. …
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Olivia Onyemaobi
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Chioma Ukonu
Chioma is the founder and COO of Recycle Points a waste recycling Social Enterprise that motivate post-consumers to recycle by creating value from their everyday waste. With her team, she has been able to develop a POINT-BASED incentive model with which they collect recyclable material (cans, glass bottles, newspaper, etc.) from registered post-consumers and in …
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Kofoworola Oyeleye
Kofoworola Oyeleye is the founder of Iyin-Creative, an innovative animation company with the goal of promoting and preserving the African heritage and cultures through cartoons. Through her work she has reached over 7,000 Children of Nigerian heritage worldwide, giving them the opportunity to learn their native language in a fun and modern way, and trained …
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Runcie C.W. Chidebe
Runcie C.W. Chidebe is the founder of Project PINK BLUE, a cancer-fighting venture in Nigeria, connecting cancer patients and communities to cancer diagnosis, treatment and care providers. Since completing the TEF Programme, Project Pink Blue has directly impacted 1,235 women and men through screening and enlightened over a million people in Africa through Radio, Television …
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Rosemary Obi
Rosemary Obi, is an alumnus of Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an Industrial Mathematician turned professional make-up designer with over 12 years experience in the world of bridal, film and creative make-up industry. She is the founder of the first-ever make-up reality show in Africa, Project FX Makeup Show Africa, a social enterprise set up to train …
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Prince Kwame Agbata
Prince Kwame Agbata is the co-founder of Coliba, an early stage waste management platform that leverages on mobile and web technology to help users separate their waste, schedule and request a pickup and get waste picked from the comfort of user’s home.
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Okey Esse
Okey Esse is the founder of Powerstove, a clean-energy advocate and focused company that designs, manufactures and distributes smokeless cookstoves that use 70% less biomass to cook food while generating 50 watts of electricity for the user’s household. The Company also produces Goodlife Pellets, a Premium Refuse-Derived Fuel which costs 60% lower than firewood and …
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Michel Nkuindja
Growing up Michel Nkuindija was lulled by the tales and legends of Africa and this made his imagination go wild with thoughts hovering around imaginative universes inspired by these tales. Only and as he grew older, he realized that these stories told to us by grandparents were not available in many books, comics and even …
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Ilesanmi Olalekan
Ilesanmi Olalekan is the Founder and CEO fo Wocman – an ICT solution that connects customers to nearest artisans, freelance professionals and local suppliers of household repairable to help execute construction, repairs and domestic works with just a tab on their mobile phones. Since he received the seed capital funding from TEF, Olalekan has been …
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Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki
Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki is an award-winning social entrepreneur, business development consultant and CEO of Fatara Farms – a business that specialises in providing low-in-come farmers with an affordable, accessible and easy comprehensive solar solution to use for their farming activities; Since receiving the seed funding from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Fatara Farms has empowered 5,642 …
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