Participants: Tony Elumelu, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Limited, Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Geeta Rao Gupta, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
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“Big Bets” Philanthropy: Partnership, Risk-Taking and Innovation
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Elumelu, FG, Others Sign MOU On National Warehouse Project For Farmers
African Exchange Holdings (AFEX), a Pan-African holding company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, to create a pioneering warehouse receipt system that will enable Nigerian farmers and cooperatives to safely store their produce at accredited warehouses.
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Opinion: Getting Paid, Not Aid: A Call to Revamp Aid in Africa
President Clinton has said, “No country can work itself out of poverty with aid alone.” Indeed, throughout Africa, we have seen first-hand how the international community’s traditional approach to solving the continent’s problems through charity and aid has fallen short.
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Iftiin Foundation partners with US, Tony Elumelu Foundation to transform post-conflict Somalia
The Somali foundation, which received a grant from The Tony Elumelu Foundation, recently held the first Generation Change Summit in Mogadishu, where ninety youth activists and entrepreneurs came together to discuss the role of youth in changing a post-conflict society for the better. [wpfilebase tag=file id=1 tpl=simple /]
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The Real Entrepreneur Unleashed
Tony Elumelu, the whiz kid of a good number of banking boardrooms appears to be living life anew. In fact, it seems like yesterday that this audacious whiz kid banker led the medium-sized Standard Trust Bank into an ambitious merger with United Bank for Africa. This cemented his corporate credentials across the African continent in …
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Enhanced business competitiveness in Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan said Nigeria’s business competitiveness and ability to attract local and international investment will be significantly enhanced with the appointment of the National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria. ABN’s Wole Famurewa finds out more about this new agency from CEO Chuka Mordi. Watch interview here
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Tony Elumelu recognised for leadership in business and philanthropy
New York, 21 September 2013 – On the eve of his departure to New York, where he will be speaking at the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG) Success Event and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, the UK based publishers of African Business Magazine announced that global business leader Tony O. Elumelu, …
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Tony Elumelu recognised for leadership in business and philanthropy
New York, 21 September 2013 – On the eve of his departure to New York, where he will be speaking at the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG) Success Event and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, the UK based publishers of African Business Magazine announced that global business leader Tony O. Elumelu, …
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Africapitalism: Putting the Private Sector at the Forefront of African Development
Africapitalism is an economic philosophy: that the African private sector has the power to transform the continent through long-term investments, creating both economic prosperity and social wealth.
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Nigerian Competitiveness Council Appoints Leading Investment Banker as Inaugural CEO
”Council a critical catalyst for transforming Nigeria’s business environment and this appointment is an important step closer to demonstrating that Nigeria is open for business” – President Jonathan. Abuja, Nigeria, September 2013 – President Goodluck Jonathan said Nigeria’s business competitiveness and ability to attract local and international investment will be significantly enhanced with the appointment …
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