Consul General of the United States of America in Nigeria, Claire Pierangelo, on Tuesday reiterated the importance of Nigeria’s entrepreneurs to the continued growth of economies in the West African sub-region and the prosperity of the continent.
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In 2019, 3,050 African entrepreneurs benefited from the programme, a number which will meaningfully increase in 2020.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the private-sector-led philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs, has announced a final list of 2,100 entrepreneurs to benefit from the inaugural TEF-UNDP Entrepreneurship Programme.
Elumelu said this while presenting the keynote speech on the theme: “Industrialization and Private Sector Engagement for Economic Transformation of ACP States,” at the Presidential Dialogue of the 9th ACP Business Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
Applications are made through TEFConnect, the digital networking hub for the African entrepreneurship ecosystem, created by the Foundation
The consul general made the assertion on Thursday at a media briefing on the flag-off of a partnership between the US Consulate General in Lagos and the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
At the just concluded Forum organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross, key speakers: Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, proffered entrepreneurship as the most sustainable solution to accelerating Africa’s transformation.
Having five African Presidents, over 60 global speakers from the public and private sectors across three continents together is a large private sector platform for empowerment and generation of ideas
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s champion of entrepreneurship, has announced the line-up of speakers and activities for the 5th Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
At a time when Europe’s relationship with Africa is high on foreign policy and developmental agendas and with the European Union beginning to deliver on its 2017 External Investment Plan, targeted at attracting investment and job creation in Africa, the Tony Elumelu Foundation brought together leading stakeholders in the development finance sector at a case study session in the EU capital, Belgium.
Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, former Director of Partnerships and Evaluation, Tony Elumelu Foundation, has assumed her new role as the Foundation’s CEO on April 1.
The announcement was made on Friday
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce the selected applicants for the 2019 cohort of the Foundation’s flagship Entrepreneurship Programme on March 22, 2019.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, an African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, has announced its last call for applications into its prestigious 2019 Entrepreneurship Programme.
Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday lauded the job creation initiative of Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications for the 2019 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.
The Board of Trustees of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading philanthropic organisation empowering African entrepreneurs, has announced the appointment of Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu as Chief Executive Officer.
Now in its fourth year, the Forum marked the graduation of the 2018 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, following a rigorous nine-month period of training, mentorship and funding, which brought the total number of beneficiaries of the Programme to 4,470, with over 300,000 applications received to date
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading entrepreneurship philanthropy, is partnering with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, the German Government’s Agency for International Cooperation.
Africa’s leading entrepreneurship focused philanthropy, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, is launching the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem – TEFConnect.