Secondary-school teachers across Nigeria can now vie for a combined ₦51.6 million in cash, professional development and school-project funding as the call for entries opens for the 11th Maltina Teacher of the Year competition.
According to The PUNCH, launching the 2025 edition in Lagos, Uzodinma Odenigbo, Corporate Affairs Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, said the contest “remains a transformative platform that aligns perfectly with Sustainable Development Goal 4—Quality Education.”
According to Odenigbo, the overall winner will receive, ₦10 million cash (₦5 million on the awards night and another ₦5 million spread over five years), A fully sponsored capacity-building programme abroad, A ₦30 million infrastructure project for the winner’s school, A championship trophy.
The first and second runners-up will take home ₦5 million and ₦3 million respectively, while state champions—one from each of the 36 states and the FCT—will earn ₦1 million plus a recognition plaque.
“We are encouraged by how the competition keeps growing: more entries, stronger partnerships and deeper government engagement,” noted Hans Essaadi, Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, whose remarks were delivered by Odenigbo.
“It tells us our collective effort to raise the profile of Nigerian teachers is working.”
Entry is open from June 24 to August 22, 2025. Eligible teachers—those employed in public or private secondary schools—must complete the online form on the dedicated Maltina Teacher of the Year website.
Sarah Agha, Marketing Director at Nigerian Breweries, emphasised Maltina’s long-standing support for educators.
“Our brand promise is to nourish lives and share happiness,” she said. “No one deserves that happiness more than the quiet heroes shaping our children’s futures.”
The initiative, first introduced in 2015 and funded by the Nigerian Breweries–Felix Ohiwerei Education Trust Fund, is implemented in partnership with the Nigerian Union of Teachers, the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria and the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools.
Representatives of the three bodies lauded the Trust Fund for “sustained, practical support” that has “elevated the status of teachers nationwide and inspired community-level change.”
