NLI Senior Fellow and Chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, Mr. Tony Elumelu, MFR was honoured with the National honours Award of the Commander of the order of the Niger (CON) on September 17, 2012.
Mr.Elumelu, MFR, CON is the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, an African-based and funded philanthropy with a mission to identify and groom African business leaders and entrepreneurs to achieve the Foundation’s central objective of enhancing the competitiveness and growth of Africa’s private sector. Until 2010, he was the Group Chief Executive Officer of United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), a single country bank he transformed into a Pan-African financial services institution serving over 7 million customers in 20 African countries and operating in Europe and the United States.
In 2003, the government of Nigeria conferred on him the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic. He also serves as Chairman of Transnational Corporation (Transcorp), a diversified conglomerate with strategic investments and core interests in the hospitality, agribusiness and oil and gas sectors.