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Why youth entrepreneurs are key to tackling climate change in Africa,By Tony Elumelu

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I am a proud Nigerian and a proud African. I am also a philanthropist and entrepreneur—and I have seen firsthand that to effectively tackle climate change within the African context, from Egypt to Nigeria to South Africa, we must look to the people it impacts.   Too often our businesses have not created value on our continent or traded commodities for short-term profit, not long-term investment. Fostering entrepreneurship, sustaining young entrepreneurs, who will grow businesses and create sustainable employment, is a crucial pathway to achieving long-term climate solutions.   In…

Gov Sani-Bello ,Other African Leaders Attend 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurial Forum

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African leaders have been advised to unite with common goal towards providing solutions to the problems bedeviling the African Continent.       This advise was part of the submissions of panelists at the 2019Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum held in Abuja. The two-day event with the theme “Empowering African Entrepreneurs” attracted participants within African Continent and Europe… Speakers at the event included the Vice President of Nigeria ,Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the founder of Tony Elumelu foundation,Tony Elumelu and President, African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina were of the opinion that African…