Terms & Conditions

ELIGIBILITY

The competition is open to all legal Citizens of Nigeria (must not be resident in Nigeria), no age limit, no qualification, all you need is to show your technical, engineering, vocational or digital CREATION, INVENTION OR INNOVATION.

AGREEMENT TO RULES

By participating, the Contestant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements.
In addition, You agree to accept the decisions of Skillup Naija Competition and other Sponsors of the competition as final and binding as it relates to the content of this Campaign.

CAUTION

ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE COMPETITION INSTAGRAM/WEBSITE OR ANY RELATED WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE COMPETITION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE ORGANIZATION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

THE ORGANIZATION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REMOVE FROM THE COMPETITION, ANY CONTESTANT WHO BREAKS SUCH RULES AND/OR FAILS TO BEHAVE APPROPRIATELY AND TO DISQUALIFY SUCH A WINNER.

Contestants and Guests must at all times behave appropriately when taking part in the Competition and observe the Competition Rules and any other rules or regulations in force at the various stages and the FINAL STAGE.

 

COMPETITION PERIOD

  • Entries will be accepted online starting on the 17th of APRIL, 2022 at 12 am (GMT+1) and ending on the 3rd of MAY, 2022 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1).
  • The first stage is to register, screen and prepare participants for the voting stage and it begins on the 4th of MAY, 2022 at 12 am (GMT+1) and ends on the 10th of MAY, 2022 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1).
  • The first stage of voting begins on the 11th of MAY, 2022 at 12 am (GMT+1) and ends on the 14th of MAY, 2022 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1).
  • The second stage of voting begins on the 11th of MAY, 2022 at 12 am (GMT+1) and ends on the 14th of MAY, 2022 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1).
  • The final stage of voting will kick-start on the 14th of MAY, 2021 at 12 am (GMT+1) and ends on the 17th of MAY, 2022 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1).

HOW TO ENTER

  • Entry into this competition is free. No purchase or payment is made to enter.
  • To enter the competition participant must meet the necessary criteria stated above. Other requirements will be communicated as the contest progresses
  • Entrants are required for registration, to upload and submit a picture showing his/her self together with invention/creation on the website or send it to WhatsApp for registration.

Entrants are advised to familiarize themselves with the terms and conditions of this Competition available on the website entry page.

Entrants are wholly bound by the terms and conditions of this Competition upon submission of entries.

Entrants are required to provide all information required in the form for the entry to be valid.

Any misrepresentation or false information will render the entry invalid.

Entrant’s submission should be made within the specific duration of the registration period, to ensure validity.

All entries made after the stated deadline date will be void.

The Organization reserves the right at any time to verify the validity of claims and Entrants (including but not limited to Entrant’s identity and place of residence) and to disqualify all entries that are not by the Terms and Conditions or that tampers with the claims process.

If the Organization fails to implement any of its rights at any stage, this does not constitute a waiver of these rights.

The Organization hereby states that it will only accept picture entries and videos that will not violate the intellectual property, privacy, or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything, which is defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing, or threatening.

All entries or documentation at any stage of this competition will be required to be sent at the stipulated time and the Organization reserves the right to disqualify ANY entrant based on late submission at ANY stage of the competition
By participating in this competition, the Entrant grants permission to the Organization to use the images or details/data in any media for promotional /marketing purposes with no payment consideration to the Entrant for One (1) year.

Employees of the Organization, their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, related companies, advertising, and promotional agencies, and the household members of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Competition.

The Organization shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Competition. Failure to provide such proof may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to the Organization for the Competition must be truthful, complete, accurate, and in no way misleading. The Organization reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such an entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading personal details and/or information.

MODIFICATION OF TERMS

We may change these terms and conditions at any time without advance notice. Changed terms will become effective once posted on the Website, and will not have any retrospective effect on existing contractual arrangements made through this Website. Your continued use of this Website after any change means you have accepted the changed terms and conditions. These terms and conditions and any other legal notices, policies, and guidelines of [Skillup Naija House of Inventions] linked to these terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Skillup Naija relating to your use of this Website and supersede any prior understandings or agreements (whether oral or written), claims, representations, and understandings of the parties regarding such subject matter and the terms and conditions may not be amended or modified except by making such amendments or modifications available on this Website.

The Skillup Naija Competition (the “Contest”) is intended to be conducted online, allowing participants from within and outside the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to vote and choose our Skillup Naija Nigerias No. 1 Inventor and creative expert and shall be construed and evaluated according to applicable Nigerian laws.

WINNER SELECTION

Determination of the final winner will be done after 4 stages of voting. This process will involve Online Voting for Our costing N50.00 NGN (Fifty Nigerian Naira) per Vote.

Judges ”decisions will be based on the highest votes and will be final.

Winners shall be selected as follows:

Stage 1: Online registration, screening, and coaching. This will help prepare contestants for the voting stage.

Stage 2: This online voting phase is to determine the top [ 100 ], qualified participants, with a minimum of [ 300. ] votes on the competition website.

Stage 3: This online voting phase is to determine the top [ 50 ] participants with a minimum of [ 600 ]votes on the competition website.

Stage 4: This is the final phase. The online voting process is to produce the top [ 3 ] voters, with a minimum of [ 1000 ]votes. The highest contestants [ ( 3). ] at this stage become the winners and Ambassadors for [ Skillup Naija 2022. ].

Family, friends, and fans of the contestants can vote for their favorite skill-up Naija contestant by clicking on the Vote button, costing N50 NGN by the contestants’ picture. Entrants are also eligible to vote for themselves on the Website as many times as they want.

Voters can vote as many times as possible for a contestant during the voting stage.

Our leaderboard will show the top to the least participant (votes) and will be used to show the leading participant (votes).

VOTING (INFO)

  • WE DO NOT ISSUE ANY TYPE OF REFUND DURING THE CONTEST.
  • ANY VOTE MADE AFTER THE CONTEST DURATION MAY BE REFUNDED UPON CLAIM.
  • THIS IS NOT A LOTTERY CONTEST; DO NOT BORROW MONEY TO CONTEST, DO NOT CONTEST ONLY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE CASH PRIZE. THIS CONTEST IS DESIGNED STRICTLY AS A PLATFORM TO SHOWCASE YOUR SKILLS.
  • NO VOTE GOES TO WASTE; EVERY AMOUNT SENT TO THE OFFICIAL SPONSORS ACCOUNT [FLUTAWAVE/TRANSFER] WITHIN THE CONTEST DURATION IS TERMED A VOTE EVEN IF IT IS NOT ADDED EARLY BECAUSE OF THE TRAFFIC.

 

VOTING WINDOW

Our daily work schedule begins from 8 AM to 10 PM on Monday to Saturday and 1 PM to 9 PM on Sundays.

(Votes can only be added and confirmed within this period.)

(Our Helpline agent can only be reached within this Period)

 

PRIZES

The Skillup Naija Competition 2022 Grand Prize is NGN 10, 000,000.

The First and Second runners-up will win NGN 3,000,000 Cash and NGN 2,000,000 Cash Respectively.

From the Top 50 participants after the final stage, the person with the highest vote will be announced as the skillup Naija’s 2022 winners. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd will be awarded the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes respectively.

The decision of the panel of Judges is FINAL (based on Votes only) and no correspondence will be entered into.

Any prize not collected for any reason 10 days after being officially notified will be forfeited and no correspondence will be entered into. For the avoidance of doubt “official notification” is defined here as email and telephone correspondence sent to the contact details provided by the recipient.

The use of the prizes awarded to winners is at the risk and expense of the winners. Winners cannot hold the Organization liable for the use of prizes.

In at the prize is not available despite the reasonable endeavours to secure it, the Organization has the right to substitute prizes of equal value.

Entrant’s participation in this competition is considered as acceptance of and abidance by the Terms and Conditions of the competition and the Competition Entries.

Only the Top 50 entrants, based on votes and winners in the Special Categories as stipulated herein will be considered for any prize.

All prizes will be processed within 10 working days.

Consolation prizes: As specified in each contest schedule on the contest page, contestants in the final stage who do not advance as one of the top 50 winners will receive a consolation prize equal to 10% of the money they generated through their Fans Voting, which may be in the form of souvenirs or cash rewards from us, at the discretion of the contest management team.

WINNER SELECTION

 

Determination of the final winner will be done via a 4-stage voting process.

This process will involve Online Voting for the Skillup Naija 2022 Contest at N50.00 NGN per Vote.

All voting will ONLY be done on the website or using any payment option made available.

The Judge’s decision will be based on the highest votes and will be final.

 

Winners shall be selected as follows:

Stage 1: In this stage, all contestants are required to mobilize a minimum total of 50 votes and above, at 50 Naira per vote, to qualify for the second stage.

The top 100 contestants with the highest votes will enter into stage 2 when the timer runs out.

Stage 2: In this stage, the contestants are required to mobilize a minimum total of 600 votes and above, at 50 Naira per vote, to qualify for the final stage.

  • Only our Top 50 will enter the next stage.

 

Stage 3: This is the final stage where the contestants will mobilize a total of 1000 votes and above at 50 Naira per vote.

  • The Top 3 contestants after the final stage will be announced as the skillup naija’s 2022 winners.
  • Of the 50 top competitors, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd will be awarded the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes respectively.
  • Our consolation prizes consist of prizes decided by management.
  • The judge’s decision based on the votes cast will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • Before being declared the Skillup Naija 2022 winner, the winner shall be required to correctly have met the requirements to comply with the Competition Rules.
  • EACH SELECTED ENTRANT WILL BE NOTIFIED BY TELEPHONE / EMAIL NO LATER THAN 24hours to the Grand Finale.

 

NOTE: Family, friends, and fans of the competitors can vote for their favourite participant by clicking on the Vote button, costing N50 NGN by the participant’s picture. Competitors are also eligible to vote for themselves on the Website as many times as they want.

Voters can vote as many times as possible for a participant during the voting stage.

Our leaderboard will show the top to the least participant (votes) that is, it will be used to show the leading participant (votes).

If needed, the Organization reserves the right, but not the obligation, to screen, filter, and/or monitor information provided by competitors and removes the same.

GENERAL

The Organization will not accept responsibility for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment or software, failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines to related to or resulting from participation in the Competition.

The Organization shall not be held liable for any copyrighted material, which has been uploaded by a competitor during the competition. All competitors must upload pictures or videos of which they either own the copyright or have obtained permission from the original copyright owner.

The Organization has the right to modify or terminate the competition without notice. In the event of such change or termination, by participating in the competition, competitors have agreed to relinquish their rights in respect to the competition and acknowledge that they will have no recourse against the Organization.

The Organization has the right to use footage and pictures from the competition’s activations including the images and personal details provided by the Entrant on any of its adverting materials (during and after the competition) without prior notice or consent of the competitor and payment of any modelling fee.
Competitor’s participation in this competition is considered as acceptance and abidance to the Terms and Conditions of the competition.

The Organization will add the personal information provided by the Competitors to its database and provide personal data to the third parties it engages for promotion and activation projects.

Voting costs N50 NGN (Fifty Nigerian Naira) and is done on the website using the various available payment portals.

The Organization has the right to delete any information uploaded by a Competitor, which is believed to be illegal, obscene, offensive, or defamatory, or is otherwise inappropriate for a competition that is meant to portray the amazing and amusing things about creatives.

The Organization has the right to use the images taken of the winner for publicity purposes in any manner it deems fit, without further remuneration being made payable to the winner.

The Organization, its associated companies, directors, and employees, shall not be liable for any loss or damage, whether direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise arising from any cause whatsoever, which may be suffered by the Competitor.

The decision of the panel of Judges during the various stages and grand finale phase is based on Votes acquired and is FINAL and no correspondence will become entered into.

WE DO NOT ISSUE ANY TYPE OF REFUND DURING/ AFTER THE CONTEST. ANY VOTE MADE AFTER THE CONTEST DURATION MAY BE REFUNDED UPON CLAIM.

INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT

By entering the Competition, the competitor releases the organizers from any annuity for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person, telephone personal injury, death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any Prize, participation in the Competition, any breach of the Competition Rules, or in any Prize-related activity. The entrant agrees to fully indemnify Releases from any and by third parties relating to the Competition, without limitation.

 

RIGHTS CLEARANCE

By providing the entries to the Organization in connection with the Competition, each entrant shall retain all right, title and in, interest (including copyright) in and to the entries, and shall grant to the Organization a worldwide, gratuitous, irrevocable, and exclusive license to copy, use, modify, reproduce, display, adapt and transmit the entries for use in all media now known or hereafter devised in perpetuity beginning on the date of entry, including, but not limited to, in connection with the administration, promotion, and exploitation of the Competition.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Organization assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, unintelligible/illegible, falsified, damaged, misdirected or incomplete entries, notifications, responses, replies or any Release, or for any computer, online, software, telephone, hardware or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an entry.

The Organization is not responsible for any incorrect entry, whether caused by any telecoms Organization or website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Competition or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Competition.

The Organization assumes responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries.

The Organization is not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software, e-mail, players, or browsers, on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any website, or on account of any combination of the foregoing or otherwise.

The Organization is not responsible for any injury or damage to Competitor any phones /computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Competition.

Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Competition, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive any Prize.

CONDUCT

By participating in the Competition, each Competitor agrees to be bound by the Competition Rules, which will be posted on Our Skillup Naija website/ Instagram page and made available throughout the Competition Period.

Competitors further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Organization, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Organization reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any Competitor found to be:
Violating the Competition Rules;

  1. Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the smooth operation of the Competition
  2. Violating the terms of service, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines, property or service; and/or
  3. Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE COMPETITION INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK /WEBSITE OR ANY RELATED WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE COMPETITION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE ORGANIZATION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

Competitors and Guest must at all times behave appropriately when taking part in the Competition and observe the Competition Rules and any other rules or regulations in force at the Various stages through to the FINAL STAGE.

The Organization reserves the right to remove from the Competition, any Winner who breaks such rules and/or fails to behave appropriately and to disqualify such Winner.

PRIVACY / USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By participating in the Competition, Competitors:
a) Grants to the Organization the right to use his/her name, mailing address, and e-mail address (“Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Competition, including but not limited to contacting and announcing the Winner;
b) Grants to the Organization the right to use his/her Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Competition, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law; and
c) Acknowledges that the Organization may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Organization in connection with any of the activities listed in (a) and (b) above.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by the Organization and/or its affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited.

TERMINATION

Organization reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to terminate the Competition, in whole or in part, and/or modify, amend or suspend the Competition, and/or the Competition Rules in any way, at any time, for any reason without prior notice.

GOVERNING LAW

The Competition is subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Competition Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable laws. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Competition Rules or the rights and obligations as between the entrant and the Organization in connection with the Competition shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

In the event of an unlikely dispute as a result of these Competition Rules, the parties involved shall use their best endeavors to settle any dispute or difference of opinion between them, arising from or in connection with these Competition Rules amicably through mutual discussion. In the event that the parties are unable to settle any dispute or differences by mutual discussion, the matter shall be referred to Arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act Cap A18, Laws of Federation of Nigeria, 2004, by a sole arbitrator to be appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitration UK (Nigerian Branch) and the place of the Arbitration shall be the Federal capital territory, Nigeria. The arbitral award shall be final and binding between the Parties except where there is misconduct on the part of the arbitrator or error on the face of the award.

STRICTLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TALENTS IN CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIONS AND INVENTIONS.

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The machinery industry has been a leading priority since the founding of the People’s Republic. The industry expanded from a few small assembly and repair facilities before 1949 to a large, widely distributed machine-building sector producing many types of modern equipment. However, as of 1987 the overall level of technology was still relatively backward. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, China intended to use large-scale imports to modernize the machinery industry, but later decided that limiting imports to critical areas would be less costly. Ministry of Machine-Building Industry planned called for about 60 percent of the industry’s products in 1990 to reach the technological level of the industrialized countries during the 1970s and 1980s. Products built to international standards received priority in allocation of funds, materials, and energy.

In 1987 the machinery industry was distributed throughout the country. Nearly all counties and towns had one or more machine factories. Major machinery centers were Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Beijing, Harbin, Changchun, Taiyuan, Luoyang, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi’an, and Lanzhou.

The machinery industry was selected by the State Council to lead the way in management reform. China’s leaders realized that the quality of machinery would determine the success of modernization in all areas of the economy. The industry’s extreme compartmentalization (a legacy of the Maoist obsession with self-reliance) showed a lack of communication among departments or within regions. Skilled managers were also lacking.