Nonso Okpala, VFD Group Boss jumps on the #TEFChallenge in an interview and spoke on the importance of the 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme for young entrepreneurs.

Q: What were you up to before this call came in?

A: Well, my morning rituals of responding to emails, a thousand and one of them. But I think I’m almost through.

Q: Do you mind? What that item over there (points to an artwork on the table?

A: Right, It’s the sculpture of honorable Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first indigenous governor-general of Nigeria. This was done by an artist in 1962.

Q: I noticed there are a lot of art pieces here, which one of them is your favourite?

A: Hmmm, that’s a tough question! Believe it all the art pieces (Gives the interviewer a tour of all his art collections and his favourite spot in his living room).

Q: Do you mind if we pick up the pace a little bit?

A: Sure, no problem.

Q: So 9 to 5 or entrepreneurship?

A: It is obvious, Entrepreneurship.

Q: Movies at the cinema or live musicals?

A: Maybe I’m not that classy right… Movies at the cinema it is.

Q: Low cut or Afro?

A: Afro.

Q: Akanna, Nnoma or Chinedu?

A: I’ll take all of them.

Q: Instagram or Twitter?

A: Instagram.

Q: So what’s one side of you that people don’t get to see a lot?

A: Movies, I like movies a lot (points to a huge TV in the living room), as I spend a lot of time watching TV. This is another thing that most people don’t like about me. I have a house, but I prefer to chill in an exclusive room where nobody comes to ask for anything.

Q: Any message for young Africans?

A: Well, you need to keep working hard to make your dreams come true. Speaking of dreams you should go on tefconnect.com to take a chance at it, you never can tell you could be the next Aliko Dangote or the next Tony Elumelu, or the next Niyi Adenubi. You never really know.