Alumni stories

  • Winning Wednesday With Osazoduwa Agboneni

    Our entrepreneur, Osazoduwa Agboneni, CEO of Nenis Engineering Limited just made a mark as one of the few female mechanics in Nigeria! It’s her first year in business and Osazoduwa just made partnership with UBER to handle professional vehicle Inspections for over 4,000 UBER cars. Following the receipt of the first tranche of her seed capital, …

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  • The Boy from Bangui & His Romance with the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme

    While growing up in Bangui, the capital of war-torn Central African Republic, Gabino Guerengomba and his family would strive to fully utilize the electricity when it came on for just four hours every day across the entire town. The rationing was because Enerca, short for Energie Centrafricaine, the national energy utility company had to be …

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  • Winning Wednesday with our Entrepreneur- Elia Timotheo

    Our entrepreneur, Elia Timotheo from Tanzania is the CEO of East Africa Fruit Farm and Company which trades and markets fresh fruit and vegetables, significantly reducing post-harvest losses. We are proud to share our entrepreneur’s success story with you as he bagged the African Entrepreneurship Award for the best business idea in the Environment category. His company was …

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  • Our Entrepreneur, Chioma Ukonu Unveils the Electric Green Tikes

    As our Founder, Tony O. Elumelu, CON says, “Young entrepreneurs and those they inspire are the lifeblood of Africa’s rise.” This quote is one of our driving forces at the Tony Elumelu Foundation as we strongly desire to see Africa rise. It’s always a huge pleasure to witness our entrepreneurs reaching their milestones first-hand, and …

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  • Winning Wednesday with Farida

    Our Entrepreneur, Farida Musa Halliru CEO of Farida Atelier is this week’s Winning Wednesday entrepreneur. Following the TEEP Boot camp, Farida travelled to the U.K to showcase her latest ready to wear collection at the African Fashion Week London. She has since received lots of invites from shows all over Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. to …

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  • TEF Business Programme - Byenda Nkwanda with Tony Elumelu

    Success Story with Byenda Nkwanda

    #TEFbusinessprogrammeOur entrepreneur this week could not imagine herself doing anything outside her passion for Fashion. So, she thought about the best ways to generate an income from her passion. She heard about the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship programme and in her words, “it brought her business to life.” This week on Winning Wednesday, we have …

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  • Titus Igwe, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur

    Meet the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs who managed the catering for the TEF FORUM 2016

    This Tony Elumelu entrepreneur has walked through hell and high-water. From being unemployed to being a janitor earning N10,000, to owning of a mobile kitchen and now an employer of 36 staff. Meet the TEF Entrepreneur who catered to over 1,000  people at the TEF Forum 2016 TEF: How did you get your idea or …

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  • Listen to Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Adeyinka Adeyemi on Cool FM

    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 Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!

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  • KEEKs, Babajide Ipaye, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur

    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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  • Muhire, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur

    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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