Alumni stories

  • Njavwa Mutambo, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur

    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, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur

    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.   Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!

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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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  • Zion Oshiobugie’s Success Story with TEF

    In 2004, young Zion Oshiobugie travelled to the oil-rich city of Warri in the Niger Delta for the first time, to permanently become the houseboy of a distant relative. A second-class citizen. Slightly over a decade later, he is the CEO of Clever Minds Integrated Services, a consultancy firm offering training and educational services to …

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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 Bootcamp in 2015 where she made key …

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  • Winning Wednesday with Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Adeyinka Adeyemi

    Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Adeyinka Adeyemi is CEO of Happy Coffee Nigeria, a mobile cafe set up with TEF Capital. Happy Coffee offers an array of coffees, teas and chocolate drinks in customized mixes and flavours Nigerian style. Using Nigerian grown coffee, our mobile cafe is set to reshape the ideologies, misconceptions and opportunities linked with coffee drinking. …

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  • Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs to Pitch Their Business Ideas to President Muhamadu Buhari

    The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs keep blazing the trail in their different sectors. This time, we have 6 of our entrepreneurs set to pitch their business ideas to the Nigerian President, President Muhamadu Buhari.  The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is structured that our entrepreneurs are bound to achieve this level of success and even more. …

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  • Winning Wednesday with Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Nosa Oyegun of Eat.Drink.Lagos

      If you love food, live in Lagos and haven’t heard of the Eat Drink Festival, then you’ve been missing out on a whole lot! It is THE food festival for African foodies in a busy, bustling city. The Second Annual Eat Drink Festival took place in Ikoyi last week with 6,000 Lagosians in attendance. …

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