The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading African philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce the selected applicants for the 2019 cohort of the Foundation’s flagship Entrepreneurship Program on March 22, 2019. The event, which marks the 5th round of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Program, will take place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, a release has said. Every year, the Tony Elumelu Foundation opens its application portal to African entrepreneurs with businesses of less than three years old. In the five years since the Foundation launched its Entrepreneurship Program, it has empowered 4,000 African entrepreneurs directly and an additional 470 entrepreneurs supported by the Foundation’s partners. On the Entrepreneurship Program, Osato Noah, West Africa Lead, Accenture Development Partnerships, said: “We have worked with the Tony Elumelu Foundation since the inception of the Entrepreneurship Program.

Source: Daily Observer March 20, 2019 02:15 UTC