Deadline: 23 April, 2023
Education as a Vaccine (EVA), in collaboration with Malala Fund, has launched the Girls’ Education Video Challenge 2023.
The Nigerian education system is in a state of emergency. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in a 2022 report, estimated that 20 million children and youth, most of whom are girls, are excluded from education in Nigeria.
This figure increased from 13 million in 2010, and implies that Nigeria is the third largest out-of-school population in the world after India and Pakistan.
The country committed to spending four percent of its GDP and 22.5 percent of its national budget on education by 2025 and maintain this in 2030. However, the sector received 5.39 percent in 2022 – its lowest budgetary allocation by the federal government in the last ten years.
Despite being the second richest country on the continent, Nigeria spends less, in percentage terms, on education than all but one (Somalia) of the ten poorest countries in Africa.
The Girls’ Education Video Challenge is, therefore, designed to encourage young Nigerians to play their part in holding their newly elected leaders accountable for their education commitments.
Benefits
- 1st prize – Tablet
- 2nd Prize – Smartphone
- 3rd Prize – Smart watch
- Creators of the top TEN videos will each receive 75GB worth of data
- The top three videos will be promoted on social media
- The three finalists will receive an all-expense-paid invitation to the National Moment on Basic and Secondary Education in Abuja on 27 April, 2023
Eligibility
- Open to young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 35
- Videos must be 90-second maximum
- Video must be based on a true-life story
- Video must be relevant to the topic
- Participants must upload videos to their social media platform of choice using #EducationNOW9ja as a hashtag
- Videos must be uploaded on or before 11:59pm on Saturday, April 22, 2023
- Participants must be following EducationNOW9ja on the social media platform to which they uploaded their videos (e.g, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter)
- One entry per person
To enter and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Daily Trust
