The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has commended the entrepreneurial drive of young Nigerians to create value in the technology sector. Osinbajo said this during his visit to Ventures Platform Hub in Abuja, alongside British Secretary for Africa & International Development, Harriett Baldwin. He noted that the federal government is supporting technology and innovation because, […]
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Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode are expected to lead other dignitaries today for the inauguration of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, Clinic in Lagos. State’s Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the two-day event, billed to commence today at […]
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The French government has signed a development finance agreement with Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF, for development finance and entrepreneurship in Africa. The agreement worth one billion Euros was executed yesterday in Lagos at the instance of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who announced the deal yesterday during a talk show with nearly 2,000 TEF alumni […]
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Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, has charged youths in Edo State to take advantage of funding opportunities, especially low-interest credit facilities, to grow their businesses and contribute to the development drive of the state government. Awosika, who was a guest speaker at a two-day workshop for entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises […]
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The Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, has called on African leaders and development institutions to help address the deepening job and employment crisis bedevilling the continent by lending support and paying more attention towards the agricultural sector, creating access to electricity and developing entrepreneurship. Elumelu […]
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The Bank of Industry (BoI) has said unlike the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), its Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) initiative is an on-lending scheme to promote youth entrepreneurship. It said the scheme is not a grant-giving scheme like the SURE-P, as the development finance institution is responsible to its investors and seeks to enhance […]
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1,000 NEW AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS JOIN $100M TONY ELUMELU ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME Lagos, Nigeria, 22 March 2016 — The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) announces the selection of 1,000 entrepreneurs for the 2nd round of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). Launched in 2015, TEEP is the largest African philanthropic initiative devoted to entrepreneurship and represents a 10-year, […]
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