The Federal Government is offering prizes for creative ideas in poetry, photography, logo design to mark Nigeria’s 60th Independence anniversary.
Nigeria calls
for creative ideas to mark 60th Independence anniversary.
It has thus
called for the submission of entries.
Dr Isa
Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, announced this on
Saturday in a statement in Abuja.
Pantami is
also the Chairman, Diamond, Innovation, Change Sub-Committee, Nigeria @60
Inter-ministerial Committee.
He said
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an inclusive National Independence
Celebration programme in line with COVID-19 protocols and guidelines.
He said that
to ensure inclusiveness, the thematic and creative aspects of the event would
be designed by Nigerians for Nigeria, focusing on the proposed theme “Together
at 60”.
The challenge
will include selecting the best slogan, the best poem and the best photograph
that best embodies the theme “Together as one”.
The best
concepts from each category of the challenge will be selected by a mixture of
several assessment criteria including a jury.
The top three
finalists will present their work to His Excellency, President Muhammadu
Buhari, have their work used in celebrating Nigeria’s 60th Anniversary and will
also receive cash prizes, in addition to being part of this epoch-making event.
Pantami said
the committee would be anticipating a challenge in which they would be looking
for talented, critical thinking and creative individuals or teams to produce
content for the anniversary.
The minister
directed citizens to participate in the challenge as well as vote for the best
brand through the challenge portal, https://nigeriaAt60.gov.ng.
Entries will
close on 15 September.
The winning
entries will be rewarded with N3million, first runner-up N1.5million and second
runner-up N1million.
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