Top 10 Businesspeople in Nigerian for 2023
The year 2023 has asked tough questions about Nigeria’s commercial and industrial concerns and put millions of businesspeople, entrepreneurs, managers, and executives under immense pressure. Resource scarcities, government policy pivots, and an uncertain political environment have all combined to raise the stakes of operating within the country’s business space. Read more about Business But […]
The Tony Elumelu Foundation BeGreen Africa Initiative 2023
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, in partnership with the IKEA Foundation and UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), has launched a program to empower and support businesses that are developing and supplying green solutions in Africa. This initiative will spotlight the work being done by young entrepreneurs in the environmental sustainability space, and help them with some […]
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) 2023
Applications are now open for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP), an annual program that trains and funds hundreds of entrepreneurs from across Africa each year. If you are building a business and you would like to receive substantial funding for it while also accessing world-class training and resources to help you grow […]
Apply For The Tony Elumelu Storytellers’ Fund 2022
Applicants are currently open for the Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund. If you are a storyteller or artist whose work covers Africa’s thriving entrepreneurial scene, here’s your chance to receive funding for it. Read more about Opportunities The Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund is open to journalists, bloggers, v-loggers, podcasters, and other content creators who produce content […]
Tony Elumelu Makes TIME Impacts Awards List
The business mogul has gained global recognition for his philanthropic activities Nigerian billionaire, Tony Elumelu, has emerged recipient of the TIME 100 Impact Awards 2022. The banking tycoon and Chairman of Heirs Holdings bagged the award for his selfless humanitarian activities and support for scaling up businesses in Africa for Africans. Read more about Awards […]
Tony Elumelu Blows Hot On Twitter Over The State Of The Nation
Some days ago, I was in a conversation with my parents and we reminisced on the good old days, about how a bag of rice was 20 Naira in the late 1980s, and how the transport fare from Onitsha to Lagos was 15 Naira in the mid-1990s. Our discussion centred on the history of […]
Tony Elumelu Foundation Set To Empower 3,369 African Female Entrepreneurs
As part of its moves aimed at empowering African entrepreneurs, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced that it will be giving out a total grant of $16.8 million in non-refundable seed capital to 3,369 women in the continent. Read more about Opportunities This information was made public by Head of the Foundation and […]
Did You Know Transcorp Is Only Fifteen Years Old?
Transnational Corporation of Nigeria which is better known as Transcorp Group has been in existence since 2004 is nowadays among the most valuable stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange nowadays. Read more about Business The company has grown from a hospitality group that bought stakes in NIRMSCO Properties Limited – the then owner of […]
Tony Elumelu Makes Time Magazine’s List of World’s 100 Most Influential People
Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu has been named in Time Magazine’s list of most influential people in the world in the year 2020. Two other Nigerians– Tomi Adeyemi and Tunji Funsho –also made the roll call this year. Read more about Business Released annually, the list from Time is a compilation representing outstanding figures in […]
Everyday Heroes: Tony Elumelu and The Tony Elumelu Foundation
Tony Elumelu is a Nigerian economist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa, Transcorp and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation. Elumelu holds the Nigerian national honours, the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) and Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) in […]
Men You Should Know: Tony Elumelu
Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu was born on the 22nd of March 1963 in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. He hails from Onicha-Ukwu in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. Career Earlier in his career, he ventured into the banking sector and was a banker par excellence. Elumelu acquired and turned Standard Trust Bank into a […]
Tony Elumelu Foundation Set To Host The Largest Entrepreneurship Forum In Africa.
Entrepreneurs all over the world do not hesitate to jump at schemes and opportunities meant to bolster their trade and widen their scope on how to build their brands to a global standard. Nigeria is fortunate to have a crop of youth willing to establish their own enterprise in a country with a high unemployment […]
Aliko Dangote Named World’s Sixth Most Charitable Person
Richtopia, a UK-based online business and financial journal, has named Aliko Dangote the sixth most charitable person in the world. The Nigerian business magnate, who is also Africa’s richest man, was placed near the summit of a list of the world’s top 100 philanthropists. Tony Elumelu, another well known Nigerian entrepreneur, got a spot on […]
The TEF Forum 2018
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum (TEF Forum) will return to Lagos for its fourth edition, on the 25th of October 2018, at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. As is the custom of the forum to thrill guests with firsts, this year, over 5,000 African entrepreneurs will linkup with top African investors from […]
Men You Should Know: Tony Elumelu
Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu is a Nigerian economist, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of the widely known philanthropic venture, The Tony Elumelu Foundation. Meet Tony Elumelu Tony Elumelu was born on March 22, 1963 to the family of Mr. Dominic and Mrs Suzanne Elumelu, in the city of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria albeit […]
Here’s Some Business Advice From Nigeria’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs
If you were given the chance to meet and seek advice from any of Nigeria’s famously successful businesspeople, who would it be? Would you prefer to hear Mike Adenuga, founder of telecoms giant Globacom, or would you rather have a mentoring session with Folorunsho Alakija, Nigeria’s richest businesswoman? Will it be a tete-a-tete with Aliko […]