{"id":15829,"date":"2017-07-24T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2017-07-24T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T11:10:12","slug":"agriculture-access-electricity-entrepreneurship-will-create-jobs-africa-says-elumelu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/agriculture-access-electricity-entrepreneurship-will-create-jobs-africa-says-elumelu\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture, Access to Electricity, Entrepreneurship will create jobs in Africa, says Elumelu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, has called on African leaders and\u00a0development institutions\u00a0to help\u00a0address the deepening job and employment crisis bedevilling the continent\u00a0by lending support and\u00a0paying more attention towards the\u00a0agricultural sector, creating access to electricity and developing entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elumelu who said this while speaking on the theme \u2018How do we create 10\u00a0million jobs by 2020?\u2019 at the Youth Connekt Africa Summit in Rwanda yesterday, opined that access to electricity and increased focus in the agricultural sector would enhance entrepreneurship and tackle the challenge of unemployment through the creation of more jobs in the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elumelu, a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and Africapitalism, also upheld the notion that the private sector has the responsibility to play the lead role in contributing to job creation in Africa, and cited the example of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and its various investments in these key areas, adding that this is visible from the $100million commitment towards supporting African entrepreneurs over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said, \u201cToday we have businesses in 20 African countries and employ 30,000 people directly and 50,000 people indirectly. Agriculture, access to\u00a0electricity and entrepreneurship have the potential to\u00a0create more\u00a0jobs in Africa”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TEF boss stated that Africa can be self-reliant and self-dependent\u00a0if the right infrastructure and government support are put in place to boost these sectors. In this regard, he commended the effort of President Paul Kagame for his brilliant initiatives in the areas of entrepreneurship and attracting key investments to the African continent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The\u00a0President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina,\u00a0who supported Elumelu\u2019s stance, acknowledged that agriculture can create jobs for the teeming African population if youths approached the sector, not just as a way of life, but as a business.<\/span><\/p>\n

He seized the opportunity to commend Elumelu for his work in entrepreneurship and pledged\u00a0to support the work of the TEF in the creation of jobs.\u00a0 \u201cI applaud Tony Elumelu\u2019s work in entrepreneurship, because entrepreneurship is key. We will help to scale up what Tony Elumelu is doing. If others are doing same, we will succeed in Africa”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rwandan Development Board also hosted Elumelu at a roundtable breakfast meeting with the Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma\u00a0 to discuss investment opportunities in Afrcia.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Youth Connekt Summit hosted by the President of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame, gathered 2,500 invited guests from the private and public sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The opening plenary session was moderated by Adeyemi Babington Ashaye, Head,\u00a0Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum; other panelists include;\u00a0Akinwumi Adesina, President,\u00a0African Development Bank; Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa; and Diane Karusisi, CEO, Bank of Kigali.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, has called on African leaders and\u00a0development institutions\u00a0to help\u00a0address the deepening job and employment crisis bedevilling the continent\u00a0by lending support and\u00a0paying more attention towards the\u00a0agricultural sector, creating access to electricity and developing entrepreneurship. 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