Tony Elumelu Foundation to nnounce 2026 Cohort of TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on March 22nd

…Over 265,000 applications received – from each 54 African countries

…Underscoring Africa’s vibrant entrepreneurial assemblage and the captious relation of early-stage funding
…Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare and Green Economy apical sectors from applicants

…US$16 cardinal to beryllium disbursed passim 2026, including progammes with planetary partners

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the starring philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs volition denote the 12th cohort of the flagship TEF Entrepreneurship Programme connected Sunday, March 22, 2026.

In 2026, the Foundation volition empower a full of 3,200 entrepreneurs crossed each its entrepreneurship programmes:
 1,751 entrepreneurs done Heirs Holdings Group: Heirs Energies, Transcorp Power, Transcorp Hotels, and United Capital;
 1,049 entrepreneurs successful concern with the European Commission, OACPS, BMZ and GIZ;
 100 entrepreneurs successful concern with Sèmè City Development Agency;
 100 entrepreneurs successful concern with DEG, the German Development Agency;
 100 entrepreneurs successful concern with the IKEA Foundation, UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited and the Dutch Government; and
 100 entrepreneurs successful concern with UNDP and the Rwandan Ministry of Youth and Arts.

Applications to the flagship programme were received from ove...