Closing Date 12th August, 2018.

Excellent Minds Initiative (EMI) – Applications are invited from undergraduate students in the Nigerian tertiary institutions to participate in the 3rd Edition of the Annual Excellent Minds Essay Competition.

Preamble

The essay competition is focused on promoting critical thinking, harnessing ideas and developing the talents, abilities, gifts and skills inherent in the Nigerian youths. This we expect shall translate into a ripple effect of awareness and provide a platform for growth for future leaders of Nigeria.
This year’s competition invites young people to be part of the sustainable development goals’ (SDGs) solution by participating in a SDG challenge designed to engage young minds in thinking about the needs of the society; thus, encouraging them to be agents of transformational change and embrace the sustainable development goals.

Essay Topic

“In not more than 1,000 words, propose a strategic and sustainable innovative approach or idea that you will adopt in addressing any of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), proposals can be for a project, campaign or charity that will assist Nigeria in attaining one or more of the goals, with a focus on a specific local community or state in the country.
Submissions are expected to explain the strategic approach to implementing the idea; identify which United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal this idea supports; and explain how the idea will contribute to attaining this goal.

Eligibility

The essay is open to undergraduate students in tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
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Essay Format
Your essay should be in MS word format using Times New Roman text, font size of 14 and double spacing. The following details should be included on the first page of your essay:

Full Name
Contact Mobile Number
Residential Address and Location
E-mail Address
Sex
Institution’s Name
Course of Study and Level
Date of Birth
Prizes

First Prize: A Brand New Tablet + A Certificate of accomplishment
Second Prize: A Brand New Smart Phone + A Certificate of accomplishment
Third Prize: A Printer + A Certificate of accomplishment
Other consolations prizes are available to be won.

For more information and application, click here
https://ukaid.org/2018/07/07/2018-excellent-minds-initiative-emi-nationwide-essay-competition/

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Apply For Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (vanier CGS)

Canadian Government
PhD Degree

Deadline: before 31 Oct 2018 (annual)
Study in: Canada
Course starts: May/Sept 2019


Brief Description:
The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) was created to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and to establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. The scholarships are towards a doctoral degree (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD).

Host Institution(s):

Canadian Universities with Vanier CGS allocation. Without exception, the Vanier CGS is tenable only at the eligible Canadian institution that submitted the nomination.

Level/Field(s) of study:

PhD programmes (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD) in health research; natural sciences and/or engineering research; and social sciences and/or humanities research

Number of Scholarships:

Up to 167 scholarships are awarded annually

Target group:

Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada and foreign citizens are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier CGS.

Scholarship value/duration:

The scholarships is worth $50,000 per year for three years.

Eligibility:

To be considered for a Vanier CGS, you must:

• be nominated by only one Canadian institution, which must have received a Vanier CGS quota;

• be pursuing your first doctoral degree (including joint undergraduate/graduate research program such as: MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD – if it has a demonstrated and significant research component). Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible for funding;

• intend to pursue, in the summer semester or the academic year following the announcement of results, full-time doctoral (or a joint graduate program such as: MD/PhD, DVM/PhD, JD/PhD) studies and research at the nominating institution; Note that only the PhD portion of a combined degree is eligible for funding;

• not have completed more than 20 months of doctoral studies as of May 1, 2019

• have achieved a first-class average, as determined by your institution, in each of the last two years of full-time study or equivalent. Candidates are encouraged to contact the institution for its definition of a first-class average; and

• must not hold, or have held, a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC to undertake or complete a doctoral degree.


METHOD OF APPLICATION
Candidates must be nominated by a Canadian Institution with a quota at which they want to study. Candidates cannot apply directly to the Vanier CGS program.

Applications are initiated in one of two ways. Either the student informs the faculty of graduate studies at the selected institution of their intent to apply to the Vanier CGS program OR the institution initiates the nomination process by contacting the desired candidate.

Applications are prepared by the student and submitted to the nominating institution by their internal deadline using the ResearchNet application system. The nominating institution then forwards recommended nominations to the Vanier-Banting Secretariat (the Secretariat) by 31 October 2018.

It is important to visit the official website (http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html) to access the application form and to know the complete details on how to apply for this scholarship.

Source: http://www.vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html

Application Closing Date: 31 Oct 2018

Africans should desist from essay competition that's not happening in our language. This is nothing but a modern cultural imperialism tool by the British Council to promote the English language to maintain their global control. They maintain control by robbing you the ability to master your own language and to worship theirs.

Your language is better than mine is the same thing as your God is better than mine. Your language is better than mine is the same as you are more human than me.

The award is to buy your loyalty, to get you think Britain, to prepare you as a future puppet, to enslave you. That's how they'll maintain control over your mind, and therefore their former colonies.

The next award could be coming to you as Britain schemes to re-colonize their former colonies in Africa. I have a book on this. I hope someone could read it and wake up let's save ourselves from the looming re-enslavement of African people.

Why are we still glorifying the language of the same people that held us slaves and imposed alien concepts on us? Asians are no longer buying this gimmicks!!.

When someone who prohibited our ancestors from speaking our own language, continues to give us accolades today for speaking his own language, intelligent people should begin asking question. When will Africans wake up to realize we are doing this at the expense of mastery of our own language.

Who wins award in our own native languages? Is it British people that will win award in Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Zulu, Kikuyu? Who will win award in our own languages?

When will African people realize this is cultural imperialism going on in our own eyes. When will people realize this people are still enslaving us till this day!!!.

"The worst thing that happened to black people is not slavery. The worst thing that happened to us is the nuclear bombing of the brain of black people"........... Ivan Van Sertima.

If you want to know what this is all about read this book. Its now available for free.

While others may have freed the body, but none but ourselves can free the mind. So, if you are an African who want to truly free your mind, and to understand our predicament in Africa, read this book. Download the e-book free in PDF at either of the site below.

https://archive.org/details/intellectual_slavery_the_worst_legacy_of_colonialism

https://www.scribd.com/document/383059819/Intellectual-Slavery-The-Worst-Legacy-of-Colonialism

WARNING: This book will make you sad, but it will set you free.

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