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Now in its 14th year, the NEC is an initiative to foster literacy, critical thinking, and healthy competition among secondary school students.
In a bold move to champion environmental sustainability across Africa, the UBA Foundation has embarked on the 2024 Tree Planting Campaign, with the theme: ‘Our Land: Grooming a Greener Future’, and a commitment to plant one million trees across the continent by 2025.
The annual National Essay Competition (NEC) is part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative which is aimed at promoting literacy and encouraging healthy and intellectual competition amongst senior secondary school students in Nigeria and across the African continent.
UBA Foundation’s Read Africa initiative was birthed almost two decades ago with a purpose of ensuring that African school children continue to read as they further their education.
Studies have revealed that over 19 per cent of adults struggle with their mental health every year.
]In recognition of the stringent effort and measures so far taken by the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led administration to ensure that Abia State is secured against the globally ravaging Coronavirus Disease, the United Bank of Africa Foundation has donated N28.5 million only to the state.
Her essay was declared the best out of over 5,000 entries received by the UBA Foundation from students of senior secondary schools across Nigeria
UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa Plc, on Monday, joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Day of the African Child.
The 12 finalists will sit for the second round of the competition, where three winners will emerge after undergoing supervised essay writing on a different topic from the original entry, on November 25, 2018 at the Bank’s headquarters in Lagos
The UBA Foundation is now accepting entries for this year’s edition of the National Essay Competition.
Designed and introduced in 2011 by the UBA Foundation, the initiative has donated hundreds of thousands of books to African schools since its inception.
Inaugurating the bridge, the Group Managing Director of UBA, Kennedy Uzoka, said the construction of the bridge was part of the bank’s efforts to give back to the society.
The essay competition, which is put together for senior secondary school students, is organized as part of UBA Foundation’s Education initiative to promote a reading culture and encourage healthy and intellectual competition amongst secondary school students in Nigeria and across Africa.
The initiative, which was launched in 2011 with the aim of encouraging students to improve their vocabulary and communication skills through reading, has been changing the lives of African
Aso urged other students yet to submit their essays to finalize it and submit so as to stand the chance of winning any of the fantastic prizes on offer
The Managing Director/CEO of the Foundation, Ijeoma Aso, said that UBA places high priority on the health sector and that the donation to the hospitals was in fulfillment of the foundation’s key objective of improving the lives and well being of the communities where UBA has presence