Tanzanian wins notable business award in SA
A Tanzanian managing director for Amsons Group, Mr Edha Nahdi, speaks at an event where he won the African Young Business Leader of the Year 2015 in Johannesburg earlier this week. PHOTO|FILE
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A Tanzanian and managing director for Amsons Group, Mr Edha Nahdi has won the African Young Business Leader of the Year 2015.
Dar es Salaam. A Tanzanian and managing director for Amsons Group, Mr Edha Nahdi has won the African Young Business Leader of the Year 2015.
He was declared winner in that category during the All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA) event held in Johannesburg, South Africa earlier this week, according to a statement availed to The Citizen yesterday.
Mr Nahdi started his business career in early 2006 when he was just 19 as an importer of bulk oil and petroleum products under the Camel Oil Tanzania retail brand, the business diversified into cement, inland container depots, real estate and bulk grain storage.
The event, conducted in partnership with CNBC Africa honours remarkable leadership and salute game changers of business on the continent for their continuing commitment to excellence, developing best practices and innovative strategies.
“Winners of the Awards exemplify the best in African leadership. They epitomize the core values of a successful leader, strength, innovation, ingenuity, knowledge and foresight – values that are imperative to carving out a powerful business in a Pan-African and global economy,” the statement reads.
The awards were grouped into seven categories of: African Young Business Leader of the Year 2015 (which went to Mr Nahdi), Business Leader of the Year (which was won by the managing director of GTBank of Nigeria, Mr Segun Agbaje) and Business Woman of the Year (which went to the Group chief executive officer of Wiphold in South Africa, Ms Louisa Mojela. Other categories were: Entrepreneur of the Year, Industrialist of the Year, which went to Africa’s richest man and founder of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, the Philanthropist of the Year and Lifetime Achievement.
I am very honoured,” says Nahdi in the statement.
He attributes the achievement to members of staff of his company. In September, Nahdi won the 2015 East Africa round of the CNBC Africa AABLA, which accorded him the opportunity to compete in last week’s finale in which he was pitted against winners from West and Southern Africa for the top accolade in business development and innovation. He beat four finalists in the category from South Africa and one Nigerian to become the role model of youth entrepreneurs aspiring to excel in the corporate sector and those still dreaming to own and run businesses.
