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- February 6, 2015
Tony Elumelu, billionaire businessman and African entrepreneurship advocate has announced on Facebook that the second cycle of the TEEP foundation will be accepting a new set of applications from the 1st of January, 2016. The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) is decade-long $100m initiative designed to give training, mentorship and seed capital to 10,000 entrepreneurs
READ MOREThank you all for being here today, the second of my two days in Washington highlighting the importance of global entrepreneurship as a development model. Just yesterday I was honoured to participate as the only non-American speaker at a White House event on global entrepreneurship hosted by President Obama, who is speaking on your campus
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – The board of Trustees of the Tony Elumelu Foundation announces the appointment of Professor Reid E. Whitlock as Chief Executive of the Foundation, commencing 15th February 2015. Professor Whitlock’s appointment follows Dr Wiebe Boer, the inaugural Chief Executive of the Foundation, becoming Director of Strategy at Heirs Holdings, Mr. Elumelu’s pan-African proprietary investment
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – Tony Elumelu, CON is a Nigerian Entrepreneur, with over twenty years of experience in the Banking and Investment sector in Africa. In the course of his career, Elumelu says he has met hundreds of entrepreneurs who carry in them the hope of Africa’s future. “Many of them young people with incredible dreams and
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – Africapitalism economic philosopher Tony Elumelu just put his money where his mouth is. The pro-local investment preacher at his posh Heirs Place today announced the launch of a $100 million entrepreneurship programme to create 10,000 businesses across Africa and in the process generate 1,000,000 jobs with at least $10 billion in annual revenue
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – Four foundations of prominent African leaders have been awarded grants by the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) to support their work in identifying and developing the next generation of African leaders. The recipient foundations are the Kofi Annan Foundation, the John A. Kufuor Foundation, the Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation and the Thabo Mbeki Foundation. They
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