The ECOWAS Commission and the Tony Elumelu Foundation have entered into an agreement to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the areas of financing, best practices, capacity building and access to regional and international markets. The Memorandum of Understanding is expected to run for...

The Chairman of Heirs Holdings and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, has advocated entrepreneurship as a veritable solution to achieving poverty reduction in the country. Elumelu who is also the Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, delivered a paper themed: ‘Entrepreneurship,...

Women applicants make 32 per cent of new 1,000 African entrepreneurs selected for the round two of the $100 million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) for 2016. Fifteen countries out of 53 which participated in the competition had a higher female-to male ration in the...

For United Bank for Africa, a new Group Managing Director emerged on Tuesday. He is Kennedy Uzoka who had been Deputy Managing Director, UBA Group and was also the Chief Executive Officer of UBA Africa, responsible for the Group’s operations in 18 countries across...