Great news for young Nigerian women with dreams of higher education!
The Ajesola Solarin Majekodunmi Foundation (ASMAF) is delighted to present the 2023 ASMAF Scholarship, an outstanding opportunity designed to support promising female students in Nigeria.
ASMAF, a non-profit organization registered under Nigerian law, has established this scholarship to assist financially disadvantaged young women pursuing tertiary education in professional fields.
The scholarship covers tuition, board, and living expenses, providing a brighter path to success for its recipients.
The ASMAF Scholarship is a need-based financial aid initiative created to assist students who exhibit exceptional academic potential but face financial obstacles.
Its primary aim is to empower young Nigerian females as they pursue higher education, with a specific focus on professional courses and the development of leadership and life skills.
This scholarship stands out by offering comprehensive support and development opportunities, making it a distinguished program in Nigeria.
Scholarship Abstract
- Scholarship Host: ASMAF
- Category: Scholarships || Nigerian Scholarships || Undergraduate Scholarships
- Benefits: Full Scholarship
- Tuition
- Accommodation
- Living Stipends
- Eligibility: Nigeria
- Deadline: September 1, 2023
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Scholarship Details
The ASMAF Scholarship Award is a Need-based financial aid for which the student and family’s financial situation is a primary factor in determining recipients.
Besides the student and family’s financial situation the awardees must be promising students with superior academic ability.
The goal of ASMAF is to promote, facilitate and contribute to the development of qualitative female Nigerian professionals and leaders.
The combination of approaches and the structured support of this programme differentiate it from typical scholarship awards in Nigeria. In providing these awards, ASMAF will achieve the following objectives:
- Reduce financial barriers for young women with high academic and leadership promise who have significant financial need and enable them complete tertiary education;
- Increase the representation of females in the professions, where they are currently severely underrepresented;
- Build a bridge for greater female participation in our economy; Develop a diversified cadre of future leaders for Nigeria.
- Ensure a better future for successive generations of Nigerians.
ASMAF Scholarship Requirements
An eligible candidate of the ASMAF Scholarship Award will be an applicant who have satisfied the following criteria;
- Be female INDIGENT and Nigerian citizen embarking on tertiary level qualifications for the first time.
- Have gained admission to or be enrolled in a full-time accredited undergraduate programme in Medicine, Law,Actuary, Engineering, Accountancy, Architecture or any professional course in any public university in Nigeria.
- Meet the financial need and academic requirements specified in these guidelines.
- Demonstrate commitment to academic and professional excellence and possess strong leadership potentials.
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- The applicant and family’s ability to contribute or pay toward the costs of university will be the primary factor used to determine financial need.
Financial eligibility is determined based on various factors, including family income, assets, and family size.
Typically, a family income of N1 million or less is considered financially eligible for an ASMAF Scholarship, while those earning above N2 million are likely ineligible.
- While these are general rules, all applicants will be evaluated on an individual basis.
ASMAF Scholarship Benefits and Timeline
The ASMAF Scholarship Award Provides:
- Financial assistance for a professional course of study at a public Nigerian University covering tuition, board and upkeep for a period of up to 6 years, depending on the course and year of award, and subject to maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
- Life skills and leadership development programmes including mentoring, with distinctive personal, academic and professional growth opportunities.
- Access to resources that provide useful information and tools that encourage academic excellence and lifelong learning.
The ASMAF Scholarship award attracts a sum to be determined annually by ASMAF but will typically cover tuition, board and upkeep.
Finalists who are selected as ASMAF Scholars will be notified of the amount of their awards.
The Scholarship will normally be awarded for the period of a full academic year from the time of the award till conclusion of the student’s course unless otherwise stated.
Payments will be made in installments from semester to semester except otherwise required by the university which will be subject to confirmation of continuing eligibility.
The scholarship award will be renewed annually for the duration of the course of study if the Awardee maintains and sustains an appropriate academic record, and participates fully in all the programmes offered under the award.
An appropriate academic record is deemed to be a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher to the conclusion of the academic programme.
The Awardee must provide evidence of appropriate academic record certified under the hand of the Registrar of the University or his/her delegated representative and evidence of satisfactory participation in all other programmes offered under the award.
Required Documents for ASMAF Scholarship
Applicants should prepare the following documents for their ASMAF Scholarship application:
- Application Form
- Personal Statement (Essay)
- Admission Letter
- Referee Letter
- Evidence of credit passes in the required subjects from examinations like the
- General Certificate of Education (GCE),
- National Examination Council (NECO),
- West African School Certificate (WASC), or
- any other approved university qualifying examination.
- Evidence of success in any required post-JAMB examination or interview or other criteria set by the admitting university.
- Evidence of current registration at the university
- Official transcript certified by the university’s Registrar.
- Affidavit of indigence and financial incapacity, sworn to at any High Court of Justice in Nigeria.
Selection Criteria
All eligibility criteria will be verified.
Recommenders may be contacted.
A provisional ranking of all applicants will be prepared based on the course of study, state of origin and geographical zone of the admitting university
The final list of successful applicants will be determined by the sum of funds available.
ASMAF’s selection decisions are final and binding. ASMAF will not entertain any appeal against its decisions.
Where an offer of a scholarship is made, the recipient must respond to the offer within the timeframes indicated on the letter of offer.
Application Procedure
- The Application process consist of submission duly completed Online Form
- Only those students for whom the completed application package that has been submitted is received by the deadline date will be considered for a scholarship.
- Deadline dates will be publicly published at least one month to the date.
- Recommenders should carefully review ASMAF’s eligibility requirements and recommend only those students who are eligible. Relatives may not serve as Recommenders.
- Recommenders writing Recommender letter must be sufficiently familiar with the student’s academic performance to respond to questions concerning academic achievement.
- Eligible recommenders include principals, teachers, guidance counselors, higher education representatives, and other professional educators.
- Referee writing Referee’s letter may be any adult of reputable character but must be sufficiently familiar with the student’s financial status to respond to questions concerning financial need.
- All such recommenders must act within their personal capacity.
- Applicants must also provide an affidavit of indigence and financial incapacity deposed to any High Court of Justice in Nigeria.
- Because competition for these awards is expected to be stiff, Applicants and Recommenders should make every effort to provide a complete picture of each applicant’s qualifications.
- Omission of or incomplete or false information in any of the required fields in the Form, and of the requested documents will render the application incomplete and ineligible for consideration.
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