Win Big in The DHL LOVE AFRICA COMPETITION

DO YOU Love AFRICA? TELL US WHY AND STAND A
CHANCE TO BY SIMPLY UPLOADING A VIDEO ,
PHOTO OR REASON
What you can win
You can win amazing prizes, just for submitting your reason for believing in
Africa!
Weekly prize
Every week we’ll select the reason, photo or video with the most votes from the
public. The weekly winner will receive $100 in cash!
Grand prize
At the end of the contest, one lucky winner will win an amazing prize! They
could be jetting off to the UK to watch Manchester United play live or, if they
prefer to stay within our beautiful continent, to Cape Town to watch the DHL
Stormers rugby team in action.
Remember that you can upload as many reasons as you like, and to get your
family and friends involved to vote for you.
To participate, click here

UBA university educational grant for students: Over N1million

Deadline: November 1 

Prize: over N1million

The Corporate Social Responsibility,(CSR),  arm of the United Bank for Africa,(UBA) has announced the commencement of the 2013 edition of the National Essay Competition amongst secondary school students in Nigeria.

Winners will get educational grants to study in any African university of their choice.

According to the announcement by the  bank, the winner will  get N1million. The first runners-up will go away with N750,000 while the second runners-up takes N50,000 all in the  local currency equivalent towards university tuition/fees and a laptop. Consolation prizes will be given to the finalists.

Win N10 Million and more in the Airtel Red Hot Promo

1. A grand prize winner of N10 million
2. N1 million winner daily
3. 5,600 winners of airtime daily
a. 600 winners of N1000 airtime
b. 5000 winners of N500 airtime
4. 100 winners of mobile phones weekly

Win big in the Airtel Red Hot Promo where everybody is a winner.
Airtel is making 60 millionaires in 60 days and a grand prize winner of
10 million naira and this could be you. There is over N100 million
worth of prizes to be won.

Win £5000 in 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Competition

Opening date: 1 October 2013
Closing date: Entries must be submitted via the online entry form by Saturday 30 November 2013 (12 noon GMT)

1. About the Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short
fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is part of Commonwealth Writers the
cultural initiative from the Commonwealth Foundation. Commonwealth Writers
develops the craft of individual writers and builds communities of emerging
voices which can influence the decision-making processes affecting their lives.
The Prize aims to identify talented writers who will go on to inspire their local
communities.
The prize covers the Commonwealth regions of 1. Africa, 2. Asia, 3. Canada and
Europe, 4. Caribbean and 5. Pacific. (See Section 4 for countries in each
region).
There will be five winners, one from each region. One regional winner will be
selected as the overall winner. The overall winner of the Commonwealth Short
Story Prize will receive £5,000 and the remaining four regional winners £2,500.
If the winning short story is a translation into English, the translator will receive
additional prize money: £2,000 for the overall winning story and £1,000 for a
regional winning story.
The final selection will be judged by an international judging panel; experienced
readers will assist the named judges in selecting the long lists

WIN $25,000 IN The AFRINOLLY SHORT-FILM COMPETITION

About The Competition
The AFRINOLLY SHORT-FILM COMPETITION is a Unique, Innovative
and Youth-focused Competition, with singular concentration on the
next generation of African film makers. This Competition is designed
to expand the conversations on issues about the African continent by
Africans, motivate and reward young and emerging filmmakers who
exhibit exceptional narrative skills using short movies and
documentary as a medium.
This competition is conceived entirely as an online challenge open to
Africans from across the world creating or have created short films or/
and documentary films of not more than 15 minutes. Participants are
expected to upload their films to a dedicated Competition Website and
the finalists would be decided by a panel of jury and public voting.
Our core objective is to empower African youths to tell their own
stories from their own perspective and eliminate financial barriers to
movies production. We look forward to ultimately creating a new
generation of content providers in the Africa movie industry and
facilitating business model based on sub-15 minutes contents.
This edition of the AFRINOLLY SHORTFILM COMPETITION is in
partnership with respected brands and organizations like MTN Nigeria,
iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival and Goethe
Institut.

To submit your video, Click here

WIN $25,000 CASH PRIZE IN GOOGLE AFRICAN CONNECTED COMPETITION

"20 semi-finalists will be selected to take part in an interview and to produce a
short promotional video. A judging panel made up of Googlers and external
judges will then determine the 10 finalists. Submissions are open from August
27, 2013 to October 31, 2013. The competition will run until February 2014
when the winners will be announced."
Every day, the web is changing lives in Africa. In the next five years, 7 out of the
world’s 10 fastest growing economies will be from Africa. The web is playing an
important part in this development. Today we’re launching a new initiative
called ‘Africa Connected: Success stories powered by the web’, and we need
your help. Have you or has someone you know embraced the web and Google’s
tools? Has it transformed your life, your passion or your business? If so, we
want to hear from you!
The five most inspiring stories stand to win prizes of $25,000 each, and the
winners will also have the opportunity to work with a Google champion to help
them make their venture even more awesome.
To Apply click here

Win 3000 Euros Prize Money in the 2014 Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition

Launch of the competition: 8 October 2013

Submission of Blogs: 2 December 2013 – 31 January 2014

Online Evaluation (public): February – March 2014

Jury Evaluation: April – May 2014

Winners Announced: June 2014The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE, SPC/PAFPNET ande-Agriculture is pleased to launch the 2nd Edition of the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloCo Awards).

This contest is organised in the framework of the ARDYIS project, which aims to raise youth awareness and improve their capacity on agricultural and rural development issues in ACP countries using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

The aims of this blog competition are to:

• Put into limelight issues, successes and challenges faced by youth engaged in: agriculture in urban and rural areas;
• Encourage the production of information and the use of new information and communication technologies by young farmers’ groups and organisations interested in the “youth in agriculture” question;
• Promote the sharing of information on the issues of agriculture and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

 Who can participate?

The YoBloCo Awards are open in two categories:

a. Individual category

This category is open to students in agricultural training courses, young farmers, journalists or other young people interested in ICT or agriculture.

b. Institutional category

This category is open to local or national

• young farmers’ organisations;
• young members of farmers’ organisations;
• young members of any organisation interested in agriculture, rural development and ICT.

For this competition, an organisation is understood as any type of non-profit or for-profit association, cooperative, forum, network or related grouping, excluding government institutions. Organisations that receive funding from governments but are not formal governmental institutions can be eligible if they fulfil all criteria.