Tony Elumelu Foundation

January 06, (THEWILL) – The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading champion of entrepreneurship, has announced applications for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes. TEF in a statement urged all aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa to apply for a chance...

March 21, (THEWILL) - Leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), will on Friday, March 22, announce 1,200 African entrepreneurs across 54 African countries as beneficiaries of its flagship entrepreneurship programme. The new beneficiaries will become...

June 03, (THEWILL) - Heirs Insurance Ltd., says it has changed its name to Heirs General Insurance (HGI). The organisation said its subsidiaries, Heirs Insurance Ltd. (HIL) and Heirs Life Assurance (HLA) also made appointments to some of their senior...

Boardroom politics and takeovers are hardly a standard fare in the arcane business world. Therefore, they arouse public curiosity when the dealings spill into the public domain. This scenario played out in the case of two powerful Nigerian business...

It used to be that business moguls of a certain generation in Nigeria followed the classical route in their rise to top managerial positions. A sound education from a prestigious school - London School of Economics, say, or Harvard...

April 13, (THEWILL) - Billionaire businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola has bought 5.5 percent stake in Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp), quoted under the tourism sector of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX). With this stake, Otedola has emerged the largest single individual shareholder...

September 19, (THEWILL) – As the world continues to experience the daily impact of global warming, whether the recent flooding in Pakistan or the less covered but equally harmful, persistent environmental degradation of Africa’s Sahel region, leaders need to...

September 18, (THEWILL) – Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu, may perhaps be the most visible Nigerian billionaire across three of the most active social media. The smooth-operating business mogul who has almost a million followers on Instagram, 458,000 on Facebook, and a...