British American Tobacco is looking to hire an Associate Legal Counsel to join our team in Lagos, Nigeria Reporting to the Head of Legal, the job holder will provide Litigation & other Alternative Dispute Resolution Support/Dispute Avoidance Strategies to the Head of Legal, WCA (West and Central Africa Region) and also provide Company Secretarial, […]
Alibaba Cloud Global AI Innovation Challenge 2020
As cloud and AI technologies are shaping all industries globally and driving numerous innovations, Alibaba Cloud has launched the Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI) service to empower AI developers and innovators by lowering technical barriers and development costs. The Alibaba Cloud Global AI Innovation Challenge is an open competition […]
Call for Submissions: Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2020
The advent of COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system and reinforces the need for fit for context, innovative and scalable solutions in education. DOTSS provides an approach for reorienting Africa’s education and training systems to meet the knowledge, competencies, skills, innovation and creativity required to nurture African core […]
Commonwealth Youth Awards 2021 open for entries
Exceptional young people can now submit entries for the 2021 Commonwealth youth awards to win prestigious titles and cash grants. The awards recognise and reward young people whose work has made a major impact on people and communities in their country. APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 21, 2020 by 23:59 GMT ELIGIBILITY: […]
‘To compete globally, Nigeria must deliberately groom young leaders with right skill sets’
The importance of grooming young leaders who can lead the transformation of the African State has never been more critical than now. Arguably, Leadership in Africa continues to be the defining pillar that is central to the development of the continent. Therefore, any efforts geared at building a community of […]
UNHCR NGO Innovation Award 2020
The UNHCR NGO Innovation Award (“the Award”) celebrates efforts and achievements of NGOs who developed innovative approaches for protection and delivery of services to refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR. This year, UNHCR dedicate the award to Refugee-led Organizations (RLOs). The Award 2020 looks for novel and creative […]
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize Writing Contest for Unpublished Short Fiction
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize started in 2012 with the launch of Commonwealth Writers. Free to enter and with a global reach across five continents, the Prize seeks out talented writers and brings stories from new and emerging voices to an international audience. Stories often come from countries with little […]
National Enterprise Challenge for Nigerian University Students
National Enterprise Challenge is an initiative of the Directors of Entrepreneurship Centers across Nigerian Universities and are being supported by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The competition is open to all current students irrespective of their field of study, undergraduate or postgraduate, full time or part-time. They must however be […]
$10,000 BEYOND TOURISM IN AFRICA INNOVATION CHALLENGE
$10,000 BEYOND TOURISM IN AFRICA INNOVATION CHALLENGE
The Luc Hoffmann Institute, the African Leadership University’s School of Wildlife Conservation, and the WWF Regional Office for Africa have launched a global innovative challenge with this objective:
To discover and incubate new revenue models that do not depend on tourism, but still enable local African communities to derive income from wildlife, manage their natural resources sustainably and improve their collective wellbeing Read More
FULLY-FUNDED GATES CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge. It is available to applicants from countries outside the UK for a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of […]
The Jack Syndrome #WSPD2020
Jack and I have been friends since teenage days. We started and finished the same high-school. We were in a group of 6 that bonded into something beautiful. On getting to know ourselves better, we discovered that he had mood swings on a regular – once he got into that […]
Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2020 (Cash Grant up to 100,000 USD)
There is the need to promote innovation in the entire education and skills development ecosystems, taking advantage of the digital revolution, in order to increase its impact and also ensure that disadvantaged groups are not left out. As the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16-25) states, ICT is an […]
Providus Bank SME Challenge
The SME Challenge is an initiative of EDC and ProvidusBank which aims at equipping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with skills and competencies that the SMEs require to be able to run their businesses profitably, defend sound and viable business proposals, efficient funds utilization, trade, access to markets and prepare […]
NCDMB Annual National Undergraduate Essay Competition for Nigerians
The NCDMB Annual National Undergraduate Essay Competition is sponsored by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to promote academic excellence and Nigerian Content to encourage the youths to build local capacities and competencies for effective participation in Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry. DEADLINE: 25th September, 2020 2020 Essay […]
Roger Casement Fellowship in Human Rights 2021/2022 (Full Tuition)
The Roger Casement fellowship has been established to honour the memory of the Irish human rights activist Roger Casement who spent some of his early working life in Calabar, Nigeria. He was an early advocate for human rights while in Nigeria, and, famously, during his later work in the Congo, […]