Adeyinka Adeyemi is the CEO of Happy Coffee and was selected as a Tony Elumelu entrepreneur in 2015. Listen to her share why she left Chicago and came to Nigeria to run her coffee business
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Listen to Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Adeyinka Adeyemi on Cool FM
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation convenes Africa’s largest gathering of entrepreneurs.
Lagos, Nigeria, October 30, 2016 – Yesterday, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) closed the 2nd TEF Entrepreneurship Forum – the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the highlight of the annual TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Forum celebrates the 2016 cohort of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs – selected from over 45,000 applicants in 54 African countries – …
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Meet the TEF Entrepreneur Who Designed Customized Sneakers for Tony Elumelu
2016 TEF Entrepreneur, Babajide Ipaye took some time out to figure out what the Founder Tony O. Elumelu would like and took a bold step to design a customised product for him. We caught up this enthusiastic entrepreneur and found out more about him TEF: How did you get your idea or concept for Keexs? …
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Winning Wednesday with Muhire Louis-Antoine from Rwanda
On this week’s episode of Winning Wednesday, we have our entrepreneur, Muhire Louis-Antoine from Rwanda. Muhire is the CEO of Mergims, a company that enables Rwandans in diaspora to prepay relatives’ basic needs in Rwanda, via mobile apps and a website. Our entrepreneur received his seed capital and in a year, he is now in …
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Success Stories with Njavwa Mutambo
In Zambia, 21-year-old entrepreneur Njavwa Mutambo co-founded a logistics startup with the help of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and incubator BongoHive I kind of have a unique history, I like to believe. I was born on Friday the 13th. My father passed away when I was three and my mum when I was seven, so my whole life I have lived …
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Fadesola Adedayo, the Marathon Man
The Toronto Star called it ‘an obsessive idea’. And the mayor of the city of Toronto at the time – David Miller – endorsed it, tweeting a video of him training. Why was Fadesola Adedayo, a 25-year old Canada-trained civil engineer coming to Nigeria to complete the extraordinary feat of running 17 marathons in 17 …
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Keturah Ovio-Onoweya, CEO of Usanii on Cool FM
TEF Entrepreneur, Keturah Ovio-Onoweya, CEO of Keturah.com and Usanii was on the SMEs Africa with Joyce show where she discussed more on her business an why she left Malaysia and came to Nigeria when she heard about the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme.
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Winning Wednesday with Belema Alagun
It’s Winning Wednesday and this week, we have Belema Alagun, CEO of Britts Foods a start-up focused on delivering the best of sandwiches and smoothies to customers. Belema is one of the 1,000 selected TEF entrepreneurs from 54 African countries. She started her business in a small one-bedroom apartment and has been able to transform …
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Winning Wednesday with Nassima Hofra
It’s Winning Wednesday again and this week, we caught up with Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Nassima Hofra from Algeria. Nassima is the CEO of Tepropack, a company that manufactures plastic packaging, designed for household detergents and auto maintenance products. Nassima, just like her fellow Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs, attended the TEF Forum in 2015 where she made key …
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Tony Elumelu: Patriotism in Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy
Originally posted on Tribune THREE weeks ago, while interviewing the chairman and founder of Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries, Dr Stella Okoli, she said something I found exceptionally profound. She told me, her business success could be trace back to her fierce patriotism. To drive home her point, she said to me: “patriotism as one of the …
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