Apply: N10.5m Scholarship up for Grabs as UBA Foundation Extends NEC 2022 Call for Entries
UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced that the three top winners of this year’s National Essay Competition (NEC) will get educational grants worth N10.5m to study in any African university of their choice just as it has stated that students now have up to October 28th, 2022 to send in their entries.
The first prize winner will get a N5m grant, which represents a significant increase by 40% from last year’s winning prize which was a N3.5m grant.
The second and third winners will each get N3 million and N2.5 million educational grants respectively up from N2.5m and N2m which was given out last year.
Apart from the cash prizes, the writers of the 12 best essays will go home with brand new Laptops and other educational tools to help them with their tertiary research work and other studies
The annual National Essay Competition (NEC) is part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative which is aimed at promoting literacy and encouraging healthy and intellectual competition amongst senior secondary school students in Nigeria and across the African continent.
