{"id":986,"date":"2016-01-31T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=986"},"modified":"2016-01-31T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T14:29:49","slug":"photos-tef-uba-us-govt-partner-in-unleashing-africas-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2016\/01\/photos-tef-uba-us-govt-partner-in-unleashing-africas-entrepreneurs","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: TEF, UBA & US Govt partner in ‘Unleashing Africa’s Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tony Elumelu Foundation and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) partnered with the United States Department of Commerce to host a panel and round-table discussion between members of the U.S. Presidential Council on Doing Business in Africa (PCDBIA)and a diverse community of African entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

The 11 person U.S. delegation, was led by the Honourable Penny Pritzker \u2013 U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The event \u2013 titled \u201cUnleashing Africa\u2019s Entrepreneurs: Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to Empower the Next Generation of Africa\u2019s Business Leaders\u201d<\/em> \u2013 brought together American business leaders and Nigerian entrepreneurs to discuss challenges, solutions and innovations in the current African business environment.<\/p>\n

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US Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker addressing the audience at the event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Founder, TEF, Tony O. Elumelu CON applauding a speaker at the event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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TOE exchanging pleasantries with a member of the U.S. delegation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TOE addressing the audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tony Elumelu Foundation and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) partnered with the United States Department of Commerce to host a panel and round-table discussion between members of the U.S. Presidential Council on Doing Business in Africa (PCDBIA)and a diverse community of African entrepreneurs. The 11 person U.S. delegation, was led by the Honourable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}