Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo demonstrated his support for Global Entrepreneurship Week, releasing the following statement:
"Global Entrepreneurship Week is about growing enterprise aspiration and ensuring that those with ideas anywhere in Africa know where to get the support they need to make them a reality. It’s about creating jobs and opportunities: small business in the Africa employs nearly 60 per cent of the workforce and contributes almost half of Africa’s turnover.”
President Obasanjo appears in the photo above, proudly wearing a GEW compass pin, with Anne Welsh, chair of the Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation.