UBA Plc, Tony Elumelu to launch TEFConnect at Africa’s largest entrepreneurship forum

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Africa’s global bank, in partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation has lined to launch TEFConnect at this year’s interactive session in Lagos, Nigeria that will include President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, moderated by TEF Founder, Tony O. Elumelu.

Purposed to be one of the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs, TEFConnect will be dedicated to connecting African entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship ecosystem across the continent.

In the lead-up to this magnanimous event UBA has called for entries by African Journalists to attend the 2018 TEF Entrepreneurship Forum.

The Journalism Fellowship being sponsored by UBA – the proud supporters of entrepreneurship in Africa will provide scribes and photojournalits affiliated with African national or global media houses the opportunity to attend the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum slated on 25th October, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria.

The Journalism Fellowship accords journalists the opportunity to interact with participants, guests, key public and private representatives, and leading speakers at the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum.

Emerging as the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem,The TEF Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 will unite over 5,000 entrepreneurs, global investors, leaders from the African public and private sectors and development organisations, presenting the unique opportunity to generate ideas, forge networks and bring policymakers and the private sector together, in a spirit of robust debate and interaction.

The 2018 cohort from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme, as well as mentors and partners, will be present, as the culmination of their intensive twelve-week induction.