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Mr Elumelu, Founder and Group Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Chairman of Transcorp Group and United Bank for Africa (UBA), is widely recognised for his advocacy of entrepreneurship as a tool for economic transformation in Africa.<\/p>\n
The International Monetary Fund<\/a><\/strong> (IMF) has appointed Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu to its newly established Advisory Council on Entrepreneurship and Growth.<\/p>\n The appointment was disclosed in an official statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n The council,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Mr Elumelu, Founder and Group Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Chairman of Transcorp Group and United Bank for Africa (UBA), is widely recognised for his advocacy of entrepreneurship as a tool for economic transformation in Africa. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appointed Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu to its newly established Advisory Council […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[11866,258,256,8752,6158,25036,6212,1283,257,4687,393,254,22812],"class_list":["post-195000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-advisory","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoints","tag-council","tag-elumelu","tag-global","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tony"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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