Leading entrepreneur , Tony Elumelu wants a better world for Nigerian youths and- improved nation for all.
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Leading Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Tony O.
Elumelu, Chairman, Heirs Holdings, has encouraged Nigerian youths to secure
their future by cultivating an attitude of learning, collaboration and
entrepreneurship. The Chairman made this assertion while delivering the
commencement address on the topic “Employee, Employer, and Empowerer: Pathways
to Success and Impact in an Uncertain World”, during the postgraduate
graduation ceremony of Babcock University in Ilishan Remo, Ogun State on June
4, 2015.
Elumelu presented advice based on his own experience needed
to achieve success during the ceremony. He also spoke on how to create
opportunities through entrepreneurship. “Entrepreneurship is how we become
masters of our destiny and tackle the serious challenge or ill that poverty and
mass unemployment pose to the stability of our societies and economies.”
He shared some learning that shaped him for future
leadership. His mentor Ebitimi Banigo helped him to develop his strategic
thinking and to channel his ideas into concrete actions.
Tony Elumelu told the graduates to always look beyond
religion and ethnicity in whatever they do. “Do not allow your religion,
ethnicity or nationality to become the chains that limit your vision, your
network and your ambition. Rather, use them as bridges to expand your world by
embracing their common principles of humanity, solidarity, charity, honesty and
the search for the common good.”
Elumelu’s address at Babcock University follows a series of
international speaking engagements which saw him speak on the transformative
power of entrepreneurship at the Oxford Africa Conference, Oxford University,
the White House and Georgetown University, Washington DC.
The President and Vice Chancellor of Babcock University,
Prof. J. A. Kayode Makinde commended the graduating students. He said: “To my
dear graduating students, I say congratulations. You are the reason why we are
here today having endured and pushed through to the end. Now you see the silver
lining behind the clouds. It surely was not an easy road but I am sure that
eventually, you are seeing the reward of your hard work.”
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