OPay Innovation Challenge 2026 (₦10,000,000 project grant) – YOA

Deadline: June 14, 2026

Applications are open for the OPay Innovation Challenge 2026. The Innovation Challenge is an expanded, holistic initiative that builds on OPay’s flagship ₦1.2 billion, 10-12 months scholarship dedication. By combining monetary help with an innovation problem, skilled talent-constructing, mentorship, and job placement alternatives, it offers gifted Nigerian undergraduates with an enabling platform to grow to be the following technology of African technovators and drivers of digital transformation.

The aims of this system embrace:

• Build digital and drawback-fixing abilities in Nigeria’s subsequent technology of innovators.
• Drive know-how options for actual social affect — from healthcare to agriculture to finance.
• Connect prime expertise with mentorship, funding, and profession alternatives in Africa’s tech ecosystem.

Innovation Themes

Participants can innovate throughout any of those excessive-affect sectors reshaping Africa’s future.

• Fintech & Digital Payments
• Healthtech
• Cybersecurity & Data Protection
• Edtech
• AI & Automation for Social Good
• Climate & Sustainability Solutions
• Agritech
• Digital Tools for SMEs & Informal Sector

Prizes

1st Place: OPay National Innovator of the Year

• ₦10,000,000 project grant + ₦300,000 Scholarship Award
• Certificate + nationwide media function
• Mentorship with business consultants
• Advisory assist for prototype growth
• Job OPPORTUNITY

2nd Place

• ₦5,000,000 project grant + ₦300,000 Scholarship Award
• Certificate + nationwide media function
• Advisory assist for prototype growth
• OPay Innovation Fellowship

third Place

• ₦3,000,000 project grant + ₦300,000 Scholarship Award
• Certificate of participation + nationwide media function
• OPay Innovation Fellowship

Eligibility

• Applicants should have downloaded the Gemini App and initiated fundamental prompts inside Gemini.
• Must be an undergraduate pupil providing any course of study in a Nigerian Tertiary Institution.
• Must have a minimal Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) rating of two.8/4 for Colleges/Polytechnics, or 3.5/5 (second-class higher credit score) for Universities.
• Preference shall be given to college students who can show important monetary hardship.

Application

Incomplete functions won’t be thought-about. All submissions have to be in English. Files accepted: PDF, JPEG, or MP4 (max 10MB every)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to OPay Innovation Challenge.