Geneith Opens Registration for Nationwide Health Competition

Geneith Pharmaceuticals Limited has opened registration for the N1 billion nation wide Health Competition. The competition, which is the a first-of-its-kind, is a national initiative designed to mobilise students in secondary schools and tertiary institutions across the country to proffer innovative solutions to tackle the scourge of malaria.

Curated as a nationwide campaign by CEOAFRICA and sponsored by Geneith Pharmaceuticals Limited in partnership with the Department of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the programme, organisers say, represents a platform to raise young antimalaria ambassador across the country.

Announcing the opening of the registration portal, Managing Director CEOAFRICA, Cletus Iloabanafor, urged Nigerians to embrace the initiative with confidence and determination, drawing inspiration from nations that have successfully overcome malaria through coordinated public health efforts and citizen participation.

“Other nations have stood where we are standing today, taken collective action and successfully eliminated this disease through deliberate public health policies. Nigeria is the Giant of Africa and the natural leader of this continent. If other nations could achieve this feat, Nigerians can do even better and establish a new benchmark for Africa,” he said.

In his remarks, the Chairman, Geneith Pharmaceuticals Limited, Mr. Emmanuel Umenwa, challenged Nigerian youth to seize the opportunity to become drivers of a new healthcare reality for the country, emphasizing that the future of Nigeria’s health sector rests heavily on the energy, creativity, and commitment of its young population.

“Young people represent the future of this nation, and they possess the power to permanently transform Nigeria’s healthcare narrative,” he said. “This initiative is about enabling them to lead that transformation.”

He noted that conventional top-down approaches to malaria control have achieved significant gains but are no longer sufficient to secure complete malaria eradication stressing that unless young people are on-boarded, malaria elimination will remain a distant goal.

He added that the initiative aligns with the broader objectives of the Department of Public Health of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, which supports community-driven strategies in sustaining malaria control gains.

Organizers believe that the programme’s grassroots approach will create a powerful nationwide network of youth advocates capable of translating the Zero Malaria vision into tangible results across every corner of the federation.

Students, educational institutions, youth organisations, and stakeholders across the country are therefore encouraged to take advantage of the programme. Registration for the Geneith Health Competition is now officially open on the website: www.geneithhealthcompetition.com