The Press Club UNILAG is pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the annual Tosin Adesile Essay Writing Competition is now open for submissions.
The essay competition, which awarded three undergraduates from the University of Lagos with cash prizes and certificates in 2024, is now accepting submissions for its third edition under the theme: “One of your strangest experiences on campus and how it shaped you.”
In line with the given theme, we are seeking essays that are bold, jaw-dropping and uncanny. We want to read your scariest campus experiences. Stories that are borderless and courageous. Your curiosities and silences. Your strengths and endurance. We want to read your strangest experiences in the University of Lagos and how they have shaped you academically, religiously, financially and otherwise.
The competition would be held in two stages, where selected participants with outstanding entries would proceed to the second and final stage in September 2025. Three winners would be awarded with a total cash prize of N100,000 at the final stage.
All submissions should be in essay form only and sent to the link attached. We implore you to carefully read the submission guidelines below before submitting.
Submission guidelines:
- Only students of the University of Lagos are eligible to participate in this competition
- Essays must not exceed 3,000 words
- Submissions must include the full name, matriculation number, department and email address of the competitors written at the top of the essay
- Essays must be original works of the participants
- All entries should be submitted through this link: https://forms.gle/UaST6dpRc4FScuwW9
- We strongly discourage the use of AI or any form of plagiarism in your submissions.
- Multiple submissions are not allowed
- Deadline for submission has been extended to:10st of September, 2025
We are eager to read your entries, and we look forward to your enthusiastic participation in this competition. For further enquiries, kindly send an email to thepressclubunilag@gmail.com or contact 08053401308.
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