Ajesola Solarin Majekodunmi Foundation (ASMAF) Scholarship 2025

Published: 12 Aug 2025

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 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.

Table of Content

Overview
Benefits
Requirements
Selection Process
Application Documents
Application Deadline
How to Apply

ASMAF Scholarship

Application Deadline	September 12, 2025
Funding Type	Fully Funded
Type	Undergraduate
Sponsor	Ajesola Solarin Majekodunmi Foundation (ASMAF)
Gender	Women

ASMAF Scholarship Benefits

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.

Requirements for ASMAF Scholarship

To be eligible for the ASMAF Scholarship, the applying candidate must be able to meet up to the criteria below.

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 potential.

Selection Process

The Application process entails submission of 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.

Application Documents

Letter of university admission from the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB)
Evidence of credit passes in all the subjects required from any of the following viz.
General Certificate of Education (GCE) examination;
National Examination Council (NECO);
West African School Certificate (WASC) examination;
any other approved university qualifying examination.
Evidence of success in any required post JAMB examination or interview or other criteria set up by the admitting university;

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