Gabriel Ezenri Foundation
Nigeria's foundation for research-driven scholarship
Funding Scholars.
Fueling Discovery.
The Gabriel Ezenri Foundation supports outstanding undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in Nigeria — with scholarships that keep them in school and grants that keep their research alive.
Our first year, in commitments
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What we fund
Four ways we keep scholarship alive
Scholarships
For undergraduates and postgraduates with the grades and the grit, but not the means. We cover tuition, fees, and learning materials so talented students can finish what they started.
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Research Grants
Seed funding for MSc, PhD, and early-career researchers. From fieldwork and lab consumables to data and equipment, we fund the unglamorous costs that make real research possible.
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Academia Support
Beyond the degree: publication fees, conference travel, graduate school application support, and mentorship that connects our scholars to the wider academic world.
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Award for Excellence in Research
Our flagship annual award, in collaboration with ISPOR (HEOR) UNN, recognising and rewarding outstanding research by the next generation of Nigerian scholars.
About the AwardOur Mission
To expand access to quality education and strengthen research in Nigeria by funding outstanding students and researchers at every stage of the academic journey.
Our Vision
A Nigeria where how far a scholar goes is determined by talent and hard work — never by financial circumstance.
Our Values
Merit. Access. Integrity. Community. Impact.
Did you know?
A single journal publication fee — often $300–$1,500 — is enough to stop a completed piece of Nigerian research from ever reaching the world. GEF covers it.
Our story
We fund the moments that decide a career
The Gabriel Ezenri Foundation was founded by Gabriel Ezenri to solve a problem he knows firsthand: Nigeria is full of brilliant students and promising researchers, and far too many of them are stopped not by ability, but by money.
We fund those moments. Because when you fund a scholar, you don't just change one life — you change everything that scholar goes on to discover, teach, and build.
Credibility with receipts
Our first-year commitments
We are a young foundation, and we believe credibility is earned with receipts, not promises.
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Awarding 10 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships worth up to ₦500,000 each
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Funding 5 research grants of up to ₦1,000,000 for graduate students and early-career researchers
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Supporting 15 publication and conference presentations by Nigerian scholars
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Publishing a transparent annual report showing exactly where every naira went
The Common Room
Scholarship deadlines, research funding, and stories — once a month
No noise. Just what matters.
Partners
Every scholarship starts with someone who believed
If your organisation shares our conviction that talent is Nigeria's most renewable resource, let's work together.