French | Arabic | Portuguese In response to the current crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the entrepreneurship-focused African philanthropy, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, has announced the difficult decision to postpone the 6th edition of its Entrepreneurship Programme and the TEF Forum until 2021. Given the paramount importance of public health and safety, this sadly is the only …
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CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENT: Tony Elumelu Foundation Postpones 2020 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme and TEF Forum until 2021
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Tony Elumelu’s Keynote Address at the Agrinnovation Seminar in Abuja, Nigeria
Delivered by Owen Omogiago, Former COO of Tony Elumelu Foundation and current MD of Transcorp Hotels Transcorp Hilton, Abuja December 9, 2019 Good morning; Your Excellency, The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Your Excellency, The Ambassador of the State of Israel to Nigeria, Ambassador Shimon Ben-Shoshan Distinguished guests here with us today; I …
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Tony O. Elumelu’s Keynote address at the ACP Business Summit 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya (December 08, 2019)
▪ Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen ▪ Our Host, His Excellency, Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya ▪ Presidents of the member states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States present here today ▪ Patrick Gomes, Secretary-General of the ACP ▪ Distinguished captains of industry and guests present here today ▪ I would like …
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We are inviting world’s greatest catastrophe if the African youth is not politically and productively engaged –Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu says in BusinessDay Interview
Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, lawyer, business coach, and CEO, Tony Elumelu Foundation makes the list of hundreds of stakeholders in entrepreneurship, in and outside Nigeria, that yours sincerely has spoken to. If you are looking for one person who has a deep knowledge of the African entrepreneurship turf, you will find one in Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu. You wouldn’t …
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TEF Director of Operations, Ifeoma Okafor-Obi’s Speech at Eloy Conference 2019
________________________________________________________________ Event: Eloy Conference, 2019 Date and Time: Wednesday 13 November 2019 Event Theme: Empower To Sustain Her Picture: TEF Director of Operations, Ifeoma Okafor-Obi with Tewa Onasanya, Founder ELOY awards ________________________________________________________________ The Strong Female Entrepreneur Every morning Mama Bisi sets out – her stool on her head, her beans paste, oil and other paraphernalia in …
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Transcription of CEO, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu’s Panel Session at MISK Global Forum 2019
________________________________________________________________ Event: WORK, REWORKED MISK Global Forum, 4th Edition Date and Time: Wednesday 13 November 2019 (9:15 – 9:55am) Panel Discussion: Dinosaur or Future-Fit? Careers in a Post-Job Era ________________________________________________________________ Panel Overview Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu (CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria) – Panelist Riad Hamade (Middle East & North Africa Executive Editor, Bloomberg News UAE) – …
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Tony Elumelu: “Precisamos começar a formar para a empregabilidade”
Empresário de referência no continente africano, o nigeriano Tony Elumelu destaca-se pelo apoio dado ao empreendedorismo jovem, através da fundação com o seu nome. Aos jovens, pede foco e resiliência. Aos governos, que garantam condições para que boas ideias se possam transformar em bons negócios. Sobre educação, alerta para a necessidade de se formarem quadros …
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“We need to start training for employability” Tony Elumelu Says in Expresso das Ilhas Interview
The ‘father’ of Africapitalism; Economist and entrepreneur, Tony Elumelu was born in Nigeria in 1963 (56 years). With investments in different areas, stand out the stakes in banking from both Standard Trust Bank and United Bank for Africa – which has transformed a pan-African financial institution with more than seven million customers in 19 countries. In 2010, he …
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Transcript: Tony Elumelu’s Remarks on “Africa’s money for African development – a future beyond aid”, during the Presidential Dialogue hosted by the President of Ghana and UNDP
Firstly, let me thank His Excellency, the President of Ghana, for being so wonderful in encouraging and supporting all of us on the continent, not just Ghanaians, and for also supporting UNDP, and for preaching and helping us tell the story of Africa beyond aid, which is at the heart of Africapitalism. But let me …
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Discours liminaire à la conférence ‘Invest for Growth in Africa’ Ministère français de l’économie et des finances (Paris, France, le 30 octobre 2019)
Bonjour à tous, Monsieur Lemaire, ministre français de l’économie et des finances Monsieur Gillard, Président de France Invest et les organisateurs de cet événement Monsieur Schricke, Président du Club France-Afrique Invest Les membres de France Invest ici réunis Et d’autres membres distingués de l’auditoire ici présents Je m’appelle Tony Elumelu, Président de United Bank …
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