4th NCDMB annual National Undergraduate essay COMPETITION info

 

4th NCDMB annual National Undergraduate essay COMPETITION 

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.

2020 essay TOPIC:

Research and Development as key lever for local Content implementation in Nigeria's Oil and Gas industry.

Contest Rules:

✅ The contest is open only to 100-200 level students in public and private Universities, Polytechnic and College of Education in Nigeria.

✅ Entrants must submit either a letter of admission or a signed letter of attestation from his/her Head of Department (HOD) 

✅ All essays must be original works specifically written for the competition.

✅ Co-authorship of essay is not permitted 

✅ Entrants are to submit only one entry 

✅ Completed manuscript and accompanying documents must be submitted to www.ncdmbessay.com on or before 25th September, 2020, late manuscript will not be considered. Hard copy submissions will not be accepted.

✅ Essays must not exceed 1500 words.

✅ Current contact information of each entrant including phone number and email address must accompany manuscript.

✅ Entrants names shall not appear on the manuscript but on a separate tittle page to be removed when a number is assigned to the entry.

✅ Shortlisted entrants will be contacted for the virtual interactive assessment to defend their submitted essays.

PRIZES

First place- 1,000,000

Second place- 500,000

third place- 300,00

fourth - tenth place- Laptop

✅ Essays would be subjected to plagiarism check to determine originality 

✅ Successful top ten finalist would be notified by the 16th of October, 2020 

✅ The winning essay will be published in the NCDMB's in-house magazine "Local Content Digest".

Good luck 👍