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Ugwumba Leaders!
The Ugwumba Center for Leadership Development in Africa is a non-political, non-discriminatory, non-profit impact investment organization established in Nigeria in 2019 for the purposes of raising young leaders and entrepreneurs for the African continent.
The Ugwumba Leadership Center was established to equip young people and women from Africa with the leadership and enterprise development skills they need to compete favourably with their peers at the global stage.
We envision an African continent whose democracies and economies are driven by young people and women, who are building peaceful democratic systems and successful business empires.
APPLY FOR THE 2023 UGWUMBA ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE
According to the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Nigeria’s unemployment rate will hit 37% in 2023. In another report, it is estimated that in Nigeria, more than 55.4% youths between the ages of 18 and 35 are currently unemployed.
These and more were the reasons why the Ugwumba Center for Leadership Development in Africa was founded in 2018 by Ugwumba Uche Nwosu with a mission to raise a new generation of leaders and entrepreneurs for Africa.
To contribute towards the reduction of unemployment crisis ravaging the youth population in Nigeria, the Center launched the Ugwumba Enterprise Challenge, an idea pitching and grant competition for young entrepreneurs and innovators who have ideas that can be transformed into business ventures or social enterprises.
Since inception in 2018, the Center has supported the birth of over 5,000 SMEs and startups across the country and have built a community of over 20,000 young and w…
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