Amon Nyesigye has a lot to be grateful for. In 2015, the Ugandan tech entrepreneur was selected to be one of 1,000 lucky Africans to participate in the inaugural season of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. Thanks to that, the thriving business has made quite a lot of progress in a few months. First, the firm moved …
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Winning Wednesday with Amon Nyesigye
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Winning Wednesday with Keturah
On this week’s Winning Wednesday Edition, we caught up with our entrepreneur, Keturah Ovio- Onoweya, a software engineer and CEO of Qeturah.com. She’s just won the first place in the British Council Enterprise Challenge which entails a N2million financial grant, a fully-funded scholarships to attend a five-day entrepreneurship foundation course at the Branson Centre for …
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ELUMELU CALLS ON AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AND DONORS TO TREAT FARMERS AS ENTREPRENEURS
…And for the U.S. Government to fight famine with flexibility Washington, DC, April 26, 2016 – Tony Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa and Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation has called on African governments and donors to treat the agricultural sector in Africa as a commercially viable sector with a …
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TONY O. ELUMELU AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAKAR’S FOUNDATION LAYING CEREMONY
ON OCCASION OF FOUNDATION LAYING CEREMONY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 23 STUDENT HOSTELS (18,000 ROOMS) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAKAR 4 APRIL, 2016 By Tony O. Elumelu, CON Honourable Minister, Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen Usual protocols Good afternoon, Bonjour, It’s a pleasure to be with you all today on what is a special day …
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GROWING FOOD AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURS: THE FUEL FOR AFRICA’S FUTURE
Tony O. Elumelu, CON’s speech at the Chicago Council on International Affairs’ Agriculture Symposium Co-Chairs of the Chicago Council’s Food and Agricultue program, Dan Glickman and Doug Bereuter; Ambassador Ivo Daalder, President of the Council; Dr. Rajiv Shah; Distinguished Policy-makers, Technocrats, Investors, Industry, Researchers, Journalists, Academia, Civil Society and Scholars; Ladies and gentlemen; It’s a pleasure to be here …
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Winning Wednesday with Fred Shava
Our entrepreneur, Fred Shava has been focused on building his staff since he received his seed capital. He has invested part of the seed capital into training of critical staff which has improved all aspects of our business. In addition to this approach, he has also implemented some of the learnings from TEF to impart knowledge to …
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Winning Wednesday with Monalisa Cosmas
Our entrepreneur, Monalisa Cosmas is the CEO of Chops Paradise (kanmewo Nig Ltd) in Nigeria. She was selected as a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur in 2015 in Agricultural sector. She has a bread/pastry making bakery that produces 120 loaves of bread per day. In her words, “my business was begging for survival due to financial constrain, but …
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Meet the Selected 1,000 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs for TEF2016
Over 45,000 African Entrepreneurs applied from 54 African countries, more than doubling the number of applications received in 2015. Today, we announce the selected 1,000 Tony Elumelu entrepreneurs for 2016. See the full list here Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Winning Wednesday with Henry Makumbi
The power of networking can’t be over emphasized. Our entrepreneur, Henry Makumbi, from Uganda has been in touch with other Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs. He shares more information on his successful partnership with another Tony Elumelu entrepreneur after the TEF Forum. TEF: Tell us how your business, Tsikenu Rabboni Ltd. has been since the TEF Forum? …
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