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