Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) Scholarship 2025 – The Nigerian Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) is now inviting applications for the 2025 scholarship program. Check below for how to apply and the requirements.
The Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 NHEF Scholars Program. This program is there to empower talented Nigerian students with the skills, experiences, and networks needed to excel as leaders and professionals.
The NHEF Scholars Program identifies exceptional students in their penultimate year and equips them with:
- Exclusive Internship Opportunities: Work with leading organizations in Nigeria.
- Leadership & Career Development: Participate in impactful training sessions and workshops.
- Mentorship & Networking: Connect with accomplished professionals and NHEF alumni excelling across diverse industries.
Requirements for NHEF Scholarship Program
To get consideration for the 2025 NHEF Scholars Program, applicants must:
- Be penultimate-year students enrolled at an NHEF Partner University
- Be well-rounded individuals with demonstrated excellence in academics, extracurricular activities, and professional pursuits.
- Exhibit a strong commitment to community service, philanthropy, and a desire to make a lasting impact in society.
Selection Process
Key dates:
- Application Opening Date: January 20th, 2025
- Application Deadline: March 7th, 2025
Application resources:
Benefits of NHEF Scholarship Program
- Each Scholar goes through a weeklong orientation program that exposes them to career development training that is pivotal in facilitating an easy transition into the global workforce.
- During the NHEF Scholars Program, each scholar undergoes intensive training by a thoroughly selected group of international facilitators.
- The Scholars will take up internship placements at our Partner Firms, which typically last 6 – 8 weeks. They also go through a robust curriculum, ensuring continuous personal and professional development.
How to Apply
Interested persons should CLICK HERE to apply
Submission procedure
- Submission of Applications must be via the NHEF Application Portal (https://portal.thenhef.org/) latest by 11:59 p.m. (WAT) on March 7, 2025
Application Portal guide:
- Log on to the NHEF application portal: https://portal.thenhef.org/.
- Register by creating an account on the portal: enter your first and last name, email address, phone number, and password.
- After registering, verify your email address by checking the inbox of the email address you registered with. Click the link or copy the URL to your internet browser.
- Once your account has been validated, log in using the email address and password you created.
- Proceed to the application by clicking on the APPLY tab from the dashboard.
- Complete all the bio-data information and the program essay questions on the application page.
- Candidates shall upload the following supporting documents: a one-page Curriculum Vitae (CV), a one-page Cover Letter and the most recent Statement of Result (All in PDF format).
- Review application responses and submit.
- Note: We suggest that interested candidates should have the responses to the application questions already filled on a separate document, e.g., Word Document, so it will be easier to copy and paste their responses into the application answer box. This is because the application cannot be saved. Hence, it must be filled and submitted at once.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Please take note of the following ways to confirm the successful submission of the application:
- The applicant’s dashboard will show this message upon application submission: “Scholars Program – Application Submitted on YY-MM-DD” and the time of submission.
- An email confirmation stating that the application has been successfully submitted will be sent to the applicant’s email address.
- Also, when the Scholars Program application tab on the dashboard is clicked, it will no longer be accessible.
The above three steps are how applicants can know if their application has been submitted successfully.
For more details, visit the official website @ https://thenhef.org/applications
Application Deadline
March 7, 2025
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