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UBA FOUNDATION’S NATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITION 2025

Application Deadline: October 17th, 2025

LOCATION: Nigeria

The National Essay Competition, targeted at senior secondary students in Nigeria, is organized annually as part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative, which aims to promote the reading culture and encourage healthy and intellectual competition amongst secondary school students in Nigeria and across Africa.

ELIGIBILITY:

Essay Topic: Nigeria is Characterised By Diverse Cultures, Ethnicities, and Religions. How Can Young Nigerians Deploy Diversity to Build a United Nation?

1st Stage: Call for entries—12 best essays to be selected
2nd Stage: Final physical test – Winner, 1st Runner-up, 2nd Runner-up

Must be a Nigerian Senior Secondary School Student.

Complete the application form.

Upload a handwritten essay of 750 words max (not typed).

Upload a recent passport photograph.

Upload a scanned copy of Birth Certificate, National ID, or International Passport.

Application Deadline: October 17th, 2025

Click here to apply

BENEFIT:

Winner – N10 million educational grant to any African University 

1st Runner-Up – N7.5 million educational grant to any African University 

2nd Runner-Up – N5 million educational grant to any African University 

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD  

Application Deadline: 2nd November 2025

LOCATION: Monaco

The Award aims to celebrate the incredible beauty of our planet and illustrate the different relationships that human beings have with nature—whether destructive or regenerative—through 5 categories: Polar Regions, Forests, Ocean, Humanity versus Nature, and Changemakers.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Award is global and open to photographers of all nationalities who will be aged 18 or over on 2nd November 2025.

It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that they have read and will abide by these rules and Photocrowd’s Terms and Conditions. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to these rules, that their entry complies with these rules, and that they will be liable to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Photocrowd and their licensees in respect of any damages or losses incurred as a breach of the rules.

Employees or agents of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Photocrowd, their families or other persons connected with this promotion (excluding the sponsors) are not eligible to enter.

Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. Use of a false name or other false details will result in disqualification.

Entrants are required to create a Photocrowd account in order to facilitate entry to the Award and provide their contact details, but participation in and engagement with the wider Photocrowdcommunity is not a requirement of entry to the Award.

All entries must be submitted via the Photocrowd online platform before the closing date of 23:59 (CET)/22:59 (UTC) on 2nd November 2025. 

Entry is free of charge. Photographers can enter up to 5 images in each of the 5 categories, allowing therefore for a maximum of 25 images in total. If any photographer is found to have entered more than 5 images into a category, all their entries will be invalidated and removed from judging.

There is a required minimum image size of 3000 pixels on the shortest side of the image. Images should be saved as jpegs at the highest quality available, at 300 dpi resolution, with a colour profile attached—preferably Adobe RGB (1998).

BENEFIT:

Grand Prize Winner (Environmental Photographer 2026): (chosen by the jury among the 5 category winners)

5,000 € grant

Invitation (including travel and accommodation) to the opening ceremony of the exhibition in Monaco

Category Winners: 1,000 € grant for each of the 5 category winners

Public Award & Students’ Choice: (to be chosen for each across all categories)

500 € grant for the Public Award-winning image and invitation (including travel and accommodation) to visit the Amazon Research Station of the International University SEK in Ecuador

500 € grant for the Student’s Choice winning image

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