At the backdrop of frustrations with funding entrepreneurship and economic development in Africa, the Tony Elumelu Foundation is now engaging the International Finance Corporation, IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank for the purpose of degrading environmental and other risks inherent in lending to young entrepreneurs as well as overall development finance in Africa.

All is set for the 2nd edition of Timeline Awareness Initiative Lecture, even as the organizers have also decided to honor some distinguished prominent Nigerians who have in the past and of recent contributed greatly to the development of the country, as well as excel in their chosen fields.

Chairman, Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, was last Wednesday honoured with Per Second News 2017’s ‘Philanthropist of the Year’ award in recognition of his charitable service that has improved the lives of people of Africa.

Frontline businessman and founder of the Elumelu Foundation, Mr Tony Elumelu, on Wednesday said the surest way of tackling poverty was economic empowerment of the people.

The Chief Executive Officer, Tony Emulelu Foundation Lagos, Mr Tony Emulelu, said on Tuesday the organisation would create over one million jobs across Africa in the next 10 years through its entrepreneurship Programme.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President, Dangote Group and Mr. Tony Elumelu, of the Chairman, UBA Plc /Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation will join other outstanding personalities in business, finance and the economy as Special Guests and Speakers at the forth coming Federal Government of Nigeria’s officially endorsed oil and gas event – the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS) – an African Petroleum Technology and Business Conference (APTC) scheduled for Abuja from 19th -23rd  February  2018.

Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu has called for the restructuring of government regulations and taxation to support business growth in Nigeria.

The chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, yesterday, said  that a nation is assured of its development when the quality of its armed forces and other public institutions are in place.

Chairman of UBA Group, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has described human trafficking as evil, saying the practice does not only strip the youths of dignity but also denies them opportunity.

CHAIRMAN, Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has charged the Federal Government to urgently address the problem of bureaucracy in the process of doing business in Nigeria to promote, attract and retain willing investment partners in the country.

Founder/President Heirs Foundation and Chairman, UBA Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu; CEO of Ray Royal Construction Company, Rt. Rev. Matthew Okpebholo; Chief Ezekiel Anaibe and Dr. Robson Momoh will, this weekend, be conferred with honorary degrees by Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, during its 21st convocation.

TONY Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the names of 1,000 entrepreneurs selected across 37 countries in Africa for the 2017 edition of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), the third in the 10-year $100 million programme.

Multinational company, General Electric (GE) and leading entrepreneurship body The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), have announced a partnership that would allow up to 25 TEF Entrepreneurs to participate in a dedicated 4- week advanced manufacturing training program every year at GE’s Lagos Garage – a hub for advanced manufacturing-based innovation, strategy development, idea generation and collaboratio

The Tony Elumelu Foundation is an ‘Africa based and African funded philanthropic organisation dedicated to the promotion of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship and to enhancing the competitiveness of the private sector across Africa‘. It is a programme in which 1,000 entrepreneurs are selected based on the viability of their ideas, including market opportunity, financial understanding, scalability and leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The lucky young Africans undergo twelve weeks of intensive training and at the end; 5,000 dollars are given to each as non refundable seed capital and access to another five thousand dollars in convertible loan.

Chairman Heirs Holding, Mr Tony Elumelu, yesterday, called for a sustainable investment in the agriculture and energy sector for economic transformation across the continent, saying that charity and aid have failed Africa.