WIMBIZ: ‘I learnt business from my mother’ – Tony Elumelu champions women’s economic leadership

By Enitan Abdultawab

Billionaire businessman Tony Elumelu has credited his mother with teaching him the fundamentals of business, using her experience as a small restaurant owner to emphasise the importance of women’s economic leadership and participation in Africa’s development.

Elumelu said his earliest lessons in entrepreneurship, including risk management, cash flow, customer relations, discipline and resilience, came from watching his mother build a business and provide for her family.

Elumelu, who spoke on Friday at the 25th Annual Conference of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, recalled how h...