Success Story of a Budding Entrepreneur- Elia Timotheo

One of the beneficiaries of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). Our entrepreneur, Elia Timotheo from Tanzania is the CEO of East Africa Fruit Farm and Company which trades and markets fresh fruit and vegetables, significantly reducing post-harvest losses.

We are proud to share our entrepreneur’s success story with you as he bagged the African Entrepreneurship Award for the best business idea in the Environment category.

Nigerian Billionaire, Tony O. Elumelu Banks On Young Entrepreneurs To Combat Poverty’s Threat

Tony O. Elumelu

BARACK OBAMA: Poverty alone does not cause terrorism or sectarian violence, but investments in youth entrepreneurship and education are some of the best antidotes that we have to that kind of disorder.

CORNISH: In the White House audience that day was Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu. President Obama invited him because he’s giving away a huge chunk of his own fortune to young African entrepreneurs. Reporter Nick Schifrin caught up with Elumelu and two of his proteges – twin brothers in Nigeria.

THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING IS ESTABLISHED

ESTABLISHED LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING

There process of giving and receiving is as natural as breathing in and out.,

As carbon dioxide goes out of man fresh oxygen is immediately available to him for intake.

You never worry or pray about where the next measure of air to breath in will come from.

In the same way, have no worry about where your next blessings will come from.

Just give appropriately and go to sleep to wake up to find your harvest waiting for you.

You cannot be a true giver and not be a receiver just like you cannot breath out carbon dioxide and not have in return oxygen to breathe in.

Between Good name and Riches which One would You Rather Choose?

This a popular aphorism in my culture that states that good name is better than riches. The Holy Bible also validated this in the book of Proverbs 22:1, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour than silver and gold".
Today, in most countries, societies and cultures of the world, the reverse is becoming the case. Many people prefers