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UBA Essay Competition for Secondary School Students

UBA essay competition
Editor 185 Comments September 1, 2020

United Bank of Africa, UBA Essay Competition for secondary school students in Nigeria is now in its 10th year. The National Essay Competition, targeted at senior secondary students in Nigeria is organized annually, as part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative which is aimed at promoting the reading culture and encouraging healthy and intellectual competition amongst secondary school students in Nigeria and across Africa.

UBA Essay Competition 2020 Topic is: “Do you think that the lock down during the Covid-19 pandemic was an essential measure in spite of the hardship it brought economically? What would you have done differently and why?”

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Selection Criteria and Eligibility

  • Be a Secondary School Student in Nigeria
  • Must submit a handwritten essay (750 words MAX)
  • Must submit a passport photograph
  • Must submit a copy of a birth certificate, National ID or passport

Selection procedure:

  • 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 essays for further assessment.
  • Following this, a second round of competition will involve the 12 finalists who will write a second supervised essay from which three best essays will be selected as the overall winners from the 12 finalists emerged from the first round of the competition

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How to Apply:

  • Applicant must submit their completed contact information (Name, Age, School, Address of school, Telephone Number, Residential Address and Email Address).
  • Applicants must attach photocopies of their original birth certificates or international passport data page.

Apply Here

or Post to
UBA Foundation
UBA House (15th Floor)
57, Marina
Lagos State

or Drop-Off at any UBA Business Office in Nigeria for onward delivery to UBA Foundation.

Awards

  • The first prize for the UBA Essay Competition is a N2.5 million educational grant.
  • The second prize is N2 million educational grant
  • The third prize is N1.5 million educational grant.

Number of Scholarships: 3

The United Bank of Africa, UBA Essay Competition 2020 Application Deadline is October 2nd, 2020.

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185 Responses

    1. Visit any nearest UBA branch closest to you or send it via post office to their postal address. Better still follow the application link in the post on OgaCEO

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      2. Good afternoon sir, am confused about something sir .
        When i was going through the information and to fill the necessary form given i saw add file to an essay …….
        And i was confused are we to submit it there or just to fill the form and submit sir.

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        1. You are to submit an handwritten essay via upload if you are using the UBA portal, however, I would suggest for writing your essay, scan it and save as a PDF then upload.

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        1. I don’t think there are any separate form for junior or senior secondary school students, just write your essay and send it to UBA, that is all.

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    2. Sir!
      I graduated from high school in 2013, and up till now I have not gained admission in to any higher institution. I’m even writing this year wassce because I have been failing mathematics. I’m now an old man, may I register?

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  14. Sir,are my to attache my details like address and all that to the essay or on another piece of paper entirely and would the details be summited alongside the essay?

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  17. Good evening…it is stated there that a National ID should be included. What if tge student don’t have one. What others means of identification can be used?

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    1. The only national i.d. a student can have is the international passport. You can reach out to the nearest UBA branch for more clarification in that regard.

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      1. I don’t think there are any separate form for junior or senior secondary school students, just write your essay and send it to UBA, that is all.

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  28. Please sir,the topic is in form of question and it has to sides(yes or no).
    Are we to discuss both sides sufficiently or to pick the one that we understand best.

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  36. Sir please, when we get to the nearest UBA close to us, what are we to do.
    And please how can we register?

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      1. Please note I am not a staff of UBA or a member of the screening committee, kindly go to the nearest UBA branch for detailed information on the submission modalities. Thank you and God bless!

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    3. Sir pls can we also write saying that the lockdown is another important measures and explaining our reasons while still writing on other preventive measures

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  50. I sincerely apologize to the editor for some of the questions here! The post is clear enough! Why won’t we just read??? Mr Editor, You are a very tolerant and patient man!

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    1. Please note I am not a staff of UBA or a member of the screening committee, kindly go to the nearest UBA branch for detailed information on the submission modalities. Thank you and God bless!

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    1. Please note I am not a staff of UBA or a member of the screening committee, kindly go to the nearest UBA branch for detailed information on the submission modalities. Thank you and God bless!

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  53. Sir;
    1. Where in Abuja can we submit it?
    2. Our details like name, phone number etc, should it be on the same paper as the essay is on or separately or on the envelope?
    3. Aside from the already given title, can we come up with a title of our own?

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  55. Sir I went through the website and u mentioned about national ID card what if I don’t have a national ID card can i come with a passport?

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    1. Please note I am not a staff of UBA or a member of the screening committee, kindly go to the nearest UBA branch for detailed information on the submission modalities. Thank you and God bless!

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  60. sir please, I went to that place that the essay is supposed to be submitted, they wrote only senior secondary school 1,2and3 while I am in junior secondary school 2,what will I do plan?

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  63. Please are we to submit the information and the essay in the registration part that says “apply here” or we submit everything to a nearest UBA bank branch.

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  73. Please if I don’t have a national I’d card and international passport can I just replace it with a passport

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  74. sir when I went to the bank today to submit the essay they told me that They did not know about the essay what Should i do sir

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    1. How do you take down an already submitted essay if you realise it needs editing . Or can I simply upload the edited one and indicate that the first is cancelled.

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  75. Pls how do I know that my submission went through. The page just went blank after clicking the submit. button.

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  76. Good evening sir,there is no option to include our age when trying to fill the form online. Also, I edited my response but I couldn’t delete the previously uploaded pages so I added new pages. I hope the duplication doesn’t matter

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    2. Sir please this feedback that you’re talking about. If it comes, where will it appear to, is it our Gmail address or is there any website that we will see the feedback in?

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