2018 GSK-Kellogg-USAID Global Health Case Competition in London

Deadline: 22nd April,2018

The GSK | Kellogg | USAID Global Health Case Competition brings together business students from around the world to discuss global health challenges. Students will be placed into teams and, together, develop a proposed solution to a given global health case study that they will then present to a panel of judges. Students will also participate in site visits to local partners from both the public and private sectors (e.g., McKinsey & Company, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, social enterprises, etc.).

Goals

  • Build business-minded global health capacity in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States
  • Generate new thinking and solutions to real world global health challenges
  • Identify (business/private sector) talent in the global health space
  • Raise awareness and interest in global health opportunities and challenges among the business community
  • Build relationships between students and schools across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States
  • Generate new global health case studies to be used in business school curriculum globally

Offer

All students accepted to the competition will be fully funded. The event will be held at GSK’s headquarters at 980 Great West Road, London, UK.  GSK will generously provide expenses to fund travel to and from the event, and lodging/food expenses in London. More details regarding travel booking and visa processing will be distributed via email to those accepted to the case competition.

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All Bar None Scholarship To Attend One Young World, 2018 In the Netherland

All Bar None is an initiative designed to ensure that outstanding young people from every country in the world are represented at the One Young World Summit 2018 in The Hague.

We have selected 125 countries that have been less well represented at previous One Young World Summits. Through All Bar None, we will work closely with our partners and sponsors to find sponsorship for one young leader from each of these countries to attend the Summit in The Hague.

Sponsorship Cover

  • Access to the One Young World Summit 2018 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
  • Hotel accommodation on a shared basis between 17 October and 20 October 2018.
  • Catering which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Transport between the Summit accommodation and the Summit venue.
  • Summit hand-outs and support materials.
  • The cost of travel to and from The Hague. Your flight to and from The Hague must depart from and return to one and the same international airport.

Please note that if you are ultimately selected for a Scholarship and require a visa to enter The Netherlands to attend the One Young World Summit 2018, you will be required to pay a Schengen visa fee yourself. The Schengen visa costs €60 EUR plus the applicable service charge of your local visa application centre. The costs of the visa and the applicable service charge, as well as any further costs associated with the visa application (including travel to and from the visa application centre), fall on you as the participant.

Eligibility:

You are eligible for All Bar None sponsorship if you can answer ‘yes’ to the following questions:

  • Are you aged 18-30?
  • Do you have a passion for world issues and evidenced commitment to making a positive change?
  • Are you a national (passport holding citizen) of one of the 125 countries listed below?
Afghanistan Albania Andorra Angola
Antigua and Barbuda Armenia Azerbaijan Bahamas
Bahrain Barbados Belize Benin
Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana
Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon
Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros
Congo, Republic of the (Congo-Brazzaville) Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Côte d’Ivoire Croatia
Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji
Finland Gabon The Gambia Georgia
Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau
Guyana Haiti Honduras Iceland
Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Israel Jamaica
Kazakhstan Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Latvia Lesotho
Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Luxembourg
Macedonia, Republic of Madagascar Malawi Malaysia
Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands
Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of
Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Mozambique
Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nicaragua
Niger Oman Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied
Papua New Guinea Paraguay Qatar Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa
San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles
Sierra Leone Slovenia Solomon Islands South Sudan
Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syria
Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Timor-Leste Togo
Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Tuvalu
Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Yemen
Zambia

 

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GTBANK Literary Prize Competition For Nigerian Writers, 2018

About the initiative

The dusty Manuscript initiative, is a brand new literary prize set up to promote the Nigerian writer to tell and sell their stories, top winning entries will get published under the Farafina breeze imprint, with over ₦1,500,000 Naira in cash prize.

We believe in not only discovering the next generation of Nigerian writers but also in empowering them, so that they can tell our stories across the globe. Which is why the Dusty Manuscript initiative features a two-day book writing and marketing boot-camp for the top 25 longlisted book authors.

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What we are looking for

We are seeking submissions of genre fiction manuscripts that stretch boundaries creatively, culturally and socially. We believe in the power of genre fiction to tell our stories in an innovative way without sacrificing the Nigerian experience!

Submission Guidelines

Word count: 25,000 minimum word count

Submissions should be adult fiction (in the sense of not being ‘children’s fiction’).

The use of Nigerian slangs and expressions are allowed.

The manuscript must be new in the sense that it is unpublished* in book form.

Eligible participants should have at least one parent born in Nigeria who holds citizenship of the same.

All entries must be submitted online.

One entry per person

Timelines

  • We will be accepting submissions from February 5th 2018.
  • The submission period will close at 12:00 a.m. midnight (WAT) on March 31, 2018.
  • The long list will be announced May 2018.
  • Author writing/marketing bootcamp and announcement of shortlist June 2018
  • Announcement of Top three at Evening Gala June 2018

     

     

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    Application csr.gtbank.com/dustymanuscript

 

 

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About Yesterday!!!

My day started at 1 a. m. with a prayer of intimacy with God. If there is anything I desire at this critical hour is a close communication with the maker. I had one-on-one chat and I pretty got answers!!!

Fast track to the activities of the day. I rushed to the office to start a blog on roofing for a client. I completed that in a short time and also learnt from a colleague some tips about SEO.She is really good at that.

I was typing a post on Facebook about Self-Discovery while doing this, I was receiving a bunch of friend requests notifications, almost 50, if I am not mistaking.

I decided to accept some at my leisure, but as a principle, I checked about, profile pictures and contents of to- be friends. Some profile pictures were wishy-washy, some didn’t have and contents were missing in so many. I engaged some of them and I realised they were informed about a guy on facebook who gives out free airtime.I don’t have a problem with that really, but I was interested to know if they are learning anything at all.

So, I changed the approach to validating my assumption by attaching the winning of the airtime with a review of my post.Alas, heaven was let loose. My fastest fingers ran away!!!

Nigeria is in this state of chaos because we lack interest in reading. You can’t emerge President in the United States if you are not a voracious reader. There is a library designated for any aspirant to read from and until acquiring the necessary knowledge, you are not fit for the race. You’d be sure of facing people who know so many things about their country and if you don’t read, how will you proffer answers?

How many of our leaders have a standard library? Anyway, I know of Professor Yemi Osinbajo.In his library, he has books written by great and successful political gladiators across the globe. He had been preparing a long time ago.So, I am not surprised about his exemplary leadership.’It is a truth that Nemo Dat Quod Non-Habet’ (You can’t give what you don’t’ have)

You can be great by learning from people that have been there.ONEBOOK is the ideas of 20 or more people combined in a hardcover to teach us the way.Imagine how great we can be by learning from the mistakes, success, failure, and growth of so many people just by reading !!!

I am not stopping the free airtime anytime soon, in fact, it will be more fun as other goodies will be added at the launch of #Read2Lead including free movie tickets, shopping vouchers, shirts etc. but, it will be a learning process for all my friends.If you’re going to win henceforth, learning is a must.

By this time next year, I hope we evolve into great leaders doing great things and contributing immensely to the birth of a new Nigeria, all because we met here on Zuckerville.

I love you plenty!!!!!

#Read2Lead
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