Senior
secondary school students in Nigeria have a few more days more to enter the UBA
Foundation national essay competition, which closes November 13, 2015
.
UBA
Foundation, which is the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for
Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced that the closing date for the entries will not
be extended.
Ijeoma Aso,
the Managing Director/CEO of UBA Foundation, says the response to the essay
competition from students has been impressive. She urged other students yet to
submit their essays, to finalize it and submit, so as to stand the chance of
winning any of the fantastic prizes on offer.
Entries for
the essay competition opened on September 30, 2015 and will close on November
13, 2015. The essay topic for this year is “What matters most to you in life and
why.”
The first
prize for the UBA National Essay Competition is a N1 million educational grant
for the winner to study in any African university of his or her choice. The
second and third prizes are N750, 000 and N500, 000 educational grants
respectively.
Ms Aso
explained that the competition is part of the Foundation's initiative to
promote creative and analytical thinking in senior secondary students in
Nigeria and is a follow up on the Foundation’s Read Africa initiative, which
promotes reading culture among students through the reading and free
distribution of Africa literary classics in secondary schools. The national
essay competition is also held in Ghana and Senegal.
Entries
received for the competition will be reviewed by a distinguished panel of judges
made up of professors from reputable Nigerian Universities, who will then
shortlist 12 best essays for further assessment.
A second
round of the competition will involve the 12 finalist who will write a second
supervised essay from which three best essays will be selected.
“Three best
essays will be selected as the overall winners from 12 finalists that will
emerge from the first round of the competition.” Said Ms Aso,
The top three
winners of the competition win educational grants to study in any African
university of their choice.
As the
Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is
committed to the socio-economic betterment of the communities in which UBA
operates, focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education,
Economic Empowerment and Special Projects.
UBA
foundation remains a role model for other corporate organizations in Africa.
The Foundation has dedicated resources to ensuring that CSR is not simply
conceived as a marketing tool in the corporate world but as a corporate
contribution towards promoting sustainable development in communities
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