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Buhari To Honour Dangote, Elumelu At Productivity Award

November 27, 2019 5:39 am

President Mohammadu Buhari, will tomorrow honour the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote and 24 others for improving productivity in the country.

Apart from Dangote, and chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko will also be conferred with the 2019 National Productivity Merit Order Award.

According to the  Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, the winners in both Individual, and Organisational categories were chosen because of their contributions to productivity in the economy.

According to him,  no nation  can be self reliant and competitive in the international market without productivity improvement in all sectors of the economy.

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Elumelu, Kenyans Feature In African Voices

November 23, 2019 5:30 am

Economist, phiIlanthropist and entrepreneur, Anthony Onyeamaechi Elumelu, and two Kenyan change makers will this week feature in the compilation edition of African Voices, a magazine programme of the Cable News Network (CNN).

The Kenyans include Elizabeth Njoroge, founder of the Art of Music Foundation who deploys the transformative power of classical music to provoke positive change in the lives of young Kenyans and Peter Tabichi, 37-year-old winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.

Elumelu, 56, will share the details of how his sheer grit and raw confidence earned him his first job as a salesman at the defunct All States …

Elumelu: Africa’s Devt Agenda Must Prioritise Job Creation

November 20, 2019 6:59 am

The founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Chairman, United Bank for Africa Group (UBA), Mr. Tony Elumelu, has proposed job creation for the youth, inclusive growth, and gender diversity as priority areas for Africa’s development agenda as well as to achieve peace and stability on the continent.

According to a statement, Elumelu, who is also the founder of Heirs Holdings, made the remark while speaking on a high-level panel with the President of Senegal, Macky Sall and the President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. Other speakers on the panel included Florence Parly, Defence Minister of France; and Pierre Buyoya former …

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Reps Minority Leadership Remain Loyal To PDP – Elumelu

November 10, 2019 9:04 am

The leadership of the minority caucus in the House of Representatives has said it remains loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The minority leader,  Ndudi Elumelu,  who stated this yesterday,  in a statement by his Special Adviser(Legal) Oyorima Idahosa, dismissed allegations of disloyalty leveled against them by the party leadership.

The PDP had suspended Elumelu and six others following controversy over the emergence of minority principal officers in the House,  against the wish of the opposition party.

However, Elumelu noted that their continued suspension for over four months “outside the rule of the party and the parliament”  is …

Elumelu partners with AFDB to support young entrepreneurs

March 29, 2019 11:47 am
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have announced a new partnership that will expand support for youth entrepreneurship on the continent.
The partnership will create an additional 1,000 places on the flagship Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), bringing the total number of places to 3,050.
Participants in the program, launched by influential Nigerian entrepreneur Tony Elumelu in 2015, will receive access to seed funding, expert mentoring, and a 12-week business training program.
Competition for places has increased in the past year, according to figures from TEF. The Foundation received 216,000 applicants compared to 151,000 for
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