Elumelu pledges empowerment for Abuja pupils

A philanthropist and economist, Tony Elumelu, has pledged to provide empowerment opportunities for students of Start-Rite school, Abuja, in entrepreneurship and other skills that would increase their chances for global opportunities. Elumelu said the choice of the school was because of how it was grooming future leaders and experts in different areas of human needs. […]

A philanthropist and economist, Tony Elumelu, has pledged to provide empowerment opportunities for students of Start-Rite school, Abuja, in entrepreneurship and other skills that would increase their chances for global opportunities.

Elumelu said the choice of the school was because of how it was grooming future leaders and experts in different areas of human needs.

He spoke at the maiden memorial lecture of Amaka Ndoma-Egba, the wife of Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, who died in a road accident last year.

Elumelu, who is the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), said Africa is seeking solutions to global challenges in ICT, economy, security, and other areas.

“We believe that the best thing for people is to teach them how to feed and not to feed them. So, we would work together to see how the Tony Elumelu Foundation, UBA Foundation, which are committed to education and economic empowerment, can support the legacy of the late Amaka Ndoma-Egba, to turn these young ones into entrepreneurs, thereby creating future billionaires out of them. This is because the future of Nigeria and the world belong to them and we would support them.”

Principal of the School, Philip Reynolds, in his remarks, said the school has been able to pick up as it tried to recover from the death of the founder.