To succeed you must first make attempts, in making attempts you will make mistakes, and instinctively, with mistakes comes the fear of making another attempt to avoid further failings. Naturally, as humans, we do not only fear for the things […]
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Relationships are the building blocks of society, and it is important that we develop and sustain healthy relationships because it has a lot to do with how far we go in our journey through life. We are all in some […]
We have always looked up to others to provide the answers we need, parents, religious institutions, government and those in the position of power, friends, family, spouses etc. We’ve also always expected that these people remain capable of providing answers […]
Good morning ladies and gentlemen; My name is Uwem Uwemakpan, Entrepreneurship Programme manager, Tony Elumelu Foundation, and I am pleased to be invited to give the keynote speech and to be here with you all today because I am passionate […]
I grew up in a very hardworking family, my dad was a pastor who spent his time studying the bible and tending to the needs of his flock, my mom a recently retired civil servant with the MOD (Ministry of […]
Having attended the last Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum, and looking at the successes that have been recorded since the inception of the programme I dare say that Africa is definitely on the rise. I recall the first day I was […]
Happy New Year!!! There’s been a lot of talk during recent days, in the press and on social media, about how awful 2016 was. On a political level, there were random changes that brought the Political unrest In Gambia, Democratic […]
Growing up I liked to break things, see what they were made of and put them back. And I got into a lot of trouble doing this. I was always curious to see what made ‘things’ work. Fast forward to […]