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Tony & Awele Elumelu Prize presentation ceremony at Modibo Adama University of Technology, Yola
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Solar Fields, Sexist Poverty and a Modern Marshall Plan – Bono, U2
This article was originally published here. If you are allergic to fanfare, you’d better bolt your doors and shutter your windows on September 25, because there is going to be a lot of it that day in the vicinity of the United Nations, when world leaders ratify the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. This is a …
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25 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs Meet with Governor El-Rufai and Inspire Entrepreneurship Drive in Kaduna State
24 August, 2015: KADUNA, NIGERIA – The Tony Elumelu Foundation and 25 Kaduna based entrepreneurs from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) were hosted by His Excellency, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State at the weekend to an informative session at the Government House, Kaduna. During the event, Tony Elumelu Foundation Chief Operating Officer, …
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PHOTOS: Akon addresses the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs in Lagos
Senegalese-American musician and Co-Founder of the Akon Lighting Africa initiative, Akon was in Lagos, Nigeria as a guest of the Tony Elumelu Foundation on July 31, 2015. He addressed some of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs in an interactive session at the headquarters of the United Bank for Africa Plc, on energy and entrepreneurship, among many …
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PHOTOS: TEF hosts Steve & Jean Case, US PAGE Ambassadors in Lagos
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Releases Most Comprehensive Study on African Entrepreneurship Ever Conducted
27 July 2015, Nairobi, Kenya — The research and policy arm of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Africapitalism Institute, released a groundbreaking study on Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem at the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya where President Obama gave the keynote address. The 86-page report, titled Unleashing Africa’s Entrepreneurs, based on original research leveraging the Foundation’s pan-African network …
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PHOTOS: The Tony Elumelu Foundation at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya
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Obama and the era of Afri-preneurship – Dante Disparte
White House invitation in hand, I am honored to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit this weekend in Nairobi on the topics of innovation, navigating the funding cycle and entrepreneurial hubs. Kenya is abuzz with excitement ahead of a proverbial homecoming for President Obama. For all the temporary excitement that global summits evoke, GES2015 and the SPARK Global …
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Why Obama’s Kenya visit might be a turning point for African entrepreneurship – Tony O. Elumelu CON
(CNN) – President Barack Obama will travel to Nairobi this week to address the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), and the first to be held in sub-Saharan Africa. This gathering of hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofits, and government officials, co-hosted by the governments of the United States and Kenya, will spotlight the growing importance of Africa …
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Full Text of Speech by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo GCFR, Vice-President of Nigeria at the 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) Boot Camp
AN ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO GCFR, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE TONY ELUMELU ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME (TEEP) BOOTCAMP ON SATURDAY, 11TH JULY, 2015 I was listening with some apprehension to the Master of Ceremonies as he was about to introduce me because he had said, just after His …
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