TEF-UNDP to train more youths for entrepreneurship

By NDUMBE BELL GASTON A relatively new partnership between the Tony Elumelu Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme known as the TEF-UNDP Entrepreneurship Programme has preselected 5,240 young African entrepreneurs out of 81,000 applications from seven Sahel countries to receive business training. Out of this number, official statements from UBA Cameroon say their philanthropic arm, the UBA Foundation, is making arrangements to organise what they call a pitching competition with the goal of choosing a final selection of 2,100 applicants to be known on December 15. They will now be eligible to join 7,531 known to be members of…