Competition & Award
NAFEST 2025 Hackathon
Apply by Nov 24, 2025
About
The NAFEST 2025 Hackathon is a high-level digital innovation competition aimed at developers and entrepreneurs in Nigeria's creative economy, focusing on innovative digital solutions and industry scaling, offering substantial cash prizes and technical acceleration support, making it ideal for early-stage and growing creative industry startups and projects.
Benefits
- Champion prize of 4 million Naira, along with Amazon AWS suite, exposure opportunities, and acceleration support from ISN Hubs and Startup South
- Second prize of 2 million Naira
- Third prize of 1 million Naira
- Fourth prize of 500,000 Naira
- Fifth prize of 250,000 Naira
- Consolation prizes for sixth to tenth place include AWS suite and exposure opportunities
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to developers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative entrepreneurs willing to build and disrupt Nigeria's growing creative economy
- Participants must submit scalable digital solutions for creative businesses to enhance monetization and explore new market opportunities
Target Region
Nigeria
Target Sector
Creative Economy
National Council for Arts and Culture, Council for Creative Technology Futures