CNN’s African Voices profiles Top Nigerian Economist, Tony Elumelu
Airs Friday: 8 November at 0830am; Saturday: 9 November at 1530pm;
Sunday: 10 November at 0900am & 1830pm; Monday: 11 November at 1030am &
1730; Tuesday: 12 November at 0530am
One of Nigeria’s top businessmen, economist, banker,
investor and philanthropist, and former Managing
Director of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony Elumelu, will feature on African Voices, CNN’s
International weekly half-hour programme highlighting
Africa's most engaging personalities.
The interview, with CNN’s Jill Dougherty, will feature Elumelu talking
about his intentions to transform electricity shortage in Africa, empower young
entrepreneurs, and how his upbringing prepared him for the success of today.
Elumelu talks about his ability to forecast, make predictions and take
position in advance based on the evaluation of the future.
He says, “I have a certain ability to tell, to read the environment and economy
and to predict the direction things might go. When I envisage and take position
and that vision comes through, then significant opportunities crystallize.”
He also explains his challenges of being the youngest Nigerian CEO of a
commercial bank, during a period when the banking industry was fast growing and headed by expatriates.
He recounts the strategies implemented in turning around Nigeria’s Standard
Trust Bank.
His passion and discipline for investment has empowered him to develop
strategies to attract investors to Africa. Heirs Holdings, a Nigerian based
Investment Company founded by Elumelu, was another initiative towards his
investment goals in the Nigerian power sector.
Elumelu is also the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, an African
based and funded philanthropy, which aims to identify and assist entrepreneurs
and the leaders of Africa in their chosen field. The proud father of five
daughters and his wife, who is a physician and business partner on the board of
Heirs Holdings, said the major aim of the foundation is to train young aspiring
Nigerians for the competitive world ahead of them.
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