Years Of Our
Togetherness
Nigeria Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Essay Competition
The Submission Deadline for Entries
About Competition
Are you a Nigerian? Are you passionate & enthusiastic about a greater and better Nigeria?
Do you have an ideal story for Nigeria? Do you have exceptional writing skills?
The Essay Competition is a literacy and empowerment initiative aimed at celebrating exceptional writing skills of young Nigerians, while also projecting a greater Nigeria to the world at large.
2021 Essay Topic
60 years of our togetherness.
Nigeria Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Why An Essay?
An Essay Competition is a very valuable project, as it is very flexible, adaptable and open to expansion, while still being very easy to organise, both in terms of human resources and financial matters. As an Essay Competition is a project which can be appealing to individuals across various levels of education and writing skills, our target audience will be very wide, giving you the chance to achieve good engagement with the Nigerian youths.
There are a number of intellectual and savvy young Nigerians with creative writing skills.
Our future projection is that this becomes an annual contest held to recognize and award talent and creativity.
For Nigerians
For Nigeria
Who is Eligible?
Submissions are accepted only from:
within and outside Nigeria.
National Identity Card/Slip,
Voter’s card, International Passport, School/Student ID)
Duration of Competition
Monday, August
23rd, 2021
( 1 MONTH )
Friday, September
10th, 2021
Requirements For
Participation
Application Requirement
Writing Requirements
Social Media Requirement
Submission Guidelines
How we'll screen
The screening process will take two rounds,
First to select candidates to contest for the prize and the second to award the winners.
Screening Process
Pedigree for Judges
Experience
Reputation
Qualification
A Transparent Process
1. Blind the submissions
In order to eliminate potential biases, it is very important that we anonymise the submissions through the process of double-blinding, thus making sure that our reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, while the authors do not know which reviewer is conducting the review of their submission.
Blinding is an easy process in practice which can be done by removing the name and biography of the author before sending the submissions to be reviewed.
2. Shortlist the submissions
Once the deadline of the call for submissions has elapsed, the editors would go through all received submissions and conclude which of them should be sent to the panel of judges. The reviewers should be checking the quality of the arguments presented, structure, referencing and other qualitative criteria that were set when the call for submissions was announced.
3. Announce the winner
The review conducted by your judges is not an advisory process, it is an essential element in the production of scholarly legal publication.
Prizes to be won
THE WINNER
1ST RUNNER-UP
2ND RUNNER-UP
COMPENSATION
PRIZE
Top entries also stand the chance to be featured in the eventual book format
- a national compendium
We have no other country than Nigeria.
We should remain here to salvage
the country together
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI GCFR
The award ceremony
A key part of the competition is the award ceremony which will hold when all submissions have been assessed and winners chosen.
This year’s ceremony will also feature recognizing 60 exceptional Nigerians and publicly awarding them.