By Tony O. Elumelu, CON In business the role luck plays in success and personal achievement is rarely discussed. If luck is mentioned, it is done with slight condescension, and usually dismissed as a product of hard work, not deserving significant attention. While hard work is paramount – and I have written extensively about the …
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5 Years of Spreading Luck – Everyone Needs a Little Help
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation Opens Applications for 5th Cycle of $100m Entrepreneurship Programme
Application exclusively available on TEFConnect.com – the largest digital networking platform for African entrepreneurs Invitation to join existing 4,470 programme Fellows 4th Cycle drew over 150,000 applications from across the African continent 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 …
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La Fondation Tony Elumelu Ouvre Les Candidatures au 5ème Cycle du Programme d’Entreprenariat De $100 Millions De Dollars
Applications exclusively available on TEFConnect.com – the largest digital network platform dedicated to African entrepreneurs Invitation to join the 4,470 existing beneficiaries of the program The 4th cycle attracted more than 150,000 applications across the African continent The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s largest philanthropy founded on the principle of empowering African entrepreneurs, is now receiving …
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A Peep Into Tony Elumelu’s Entrepreneurship Model
The United Nations data show that 46 percent of African youths live on less than $1 per day, which more or less means that they live in acute or chronic poverty. Only those earning above $1.90 live above the poverty line. An International Labour Organisation report in August 2016 showed that working poverty rates among youths …
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Takes TEFConnect to Intra-African Trade Fair in Egypt
Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs, was represented by a delegation at Afrexim Bank’s Intra Africa Trade Fair in Cairo, Egypt where TEFConnect – the largest digital networking platform connecting African entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, was unveiled to the public. Speaking on the panel “Making Intra-African Trade work for business – Views from …
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Appoints Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu as Chief Executive Officer
…Elevates the Retiring CEO Parminder Vir to the Advisory Board of the Foundation Left to Right: outgoing CEO, Parminder Vir; Incoming CEO, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu LAGOS – December 13, 2018: The Board of Trustees of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s private-sector-led philanthropic organisation empowering African entrepreneurs, announced the appointment of Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu as Chief Executive Officer …
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Applications for Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2019 Open 1st January on TEFConnect
The Tony Elumelu Foundation will open the 5thEntrepreneurship Programme application cycle on Jan 1st , 2019 Applications will be hosted on the largest digital networking platform for African entrepreneurs, TEFConnect – tefconnect.com On the 1st of January 2019, at 12am, WAT, the Tony Elumelu Foundation will begin accepting applications for the fifth cycle …
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Africapitalism: Rethinking the Role of Business in Africa by Prof. Kenneth Amaeshi
On behalf of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s largest philanthropic organisation committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, it is an honour to be here with you today at the 2nd Chevening Nigeria Alumni Leadership Summit. Africapitalism. A deceptively simple notion, but a powerful one that has the potential to remake a continent, and put Africa on an …
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Tony Elumelu Recognised with North East Entrepreneurship Leadership Award for Championing Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa
African billionaire and philanthropist, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, has been recognised with the North East Entrepreneurship Leadership Award 2019 for his role in promoting entrepreneurship and supporting young people across the continent, including North Eastern Nigeria. Tagged “Entrepreneurship, Media and Peace in the North East”, the event, which was organised by Borno-based foremost print and online publication, Yerwa Express News in …
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TEF in Egypt: Promotes Intra African Trade & Entrepreneurship!
Next week will be an exciting one for us. This weekend and throughout next week, the Tony Elumelu Foundation will be in Egypt to discuss ways to achieve better intra-African trade relations and promote entrepreneurship in a series of events happening in Cairo and Sharm El Sheikh. AFRICA 2018 FORUM, EGYPT Our first stop will …
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