A journalist with Radio Nigeria Precious FM in Lafia,
Nassarawa State, Mr. Danjuma Ibrahim Yakubu, has emerged the grand prize winner
in the just concluded Red Hot Promo by Nigeria’s leading mobile Internet
Company, Airtel Nigeria, reports DigitalSENSE
Business News.
Yakubu, 40, a National Assembly correspondent, reportedly broke
down in tears at the Headquarters of Airtel’s Northern operations in Abuja,
yesterday, when he came to personally verify the authenticity of the promo and
the fact that he emerged grand prize winner of 10 million naira.
An Airtel Regional Management team led by Olufemi Oyewole,
the Regional Operations Director, North, welcomed the journalist and confirmed
to him that the promo was real. An overwhelmed Yakubu was literally overtaken
by emotions as he battled to complete the acceptance form.
“This is like a dream to me; I just can’t believe that this
is real and happening. May God be praised,” Yakubu said in a trembling voice
and teary eyes.
Yakubu, married with five children and a resident of Doma,
Doma Local Government Area (LGA) of Nassarawa state, profusely thanked Airtel
for the generosity, saying that the company “should continue with the good and
transparent work, and may God bless the management for their wisdom and
consideration for the welfare of the common man.”
Oyewole used the opportunity to assure the winner that
Airtel is passionate about empowering Nigerians and creating credible platforms
to reward and excite its customers, and also enable them realize their dreams
and passions.
DigitalSENSE
Business News recalls that Yakubu emerged winner in a draw supervised by
leading systems’ audit specialist, TCQA and conducted on Tuesday, December
17th, 2013 at the Corporate Headquarters of Airtel Nigeria located in highbrow
Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Airtel drew the curtain on the Red Hot Recharge and Win
promo after sixty days of doling out cash prizes, phones and free airtime worth
hundreds of millions of naira to customers.
The loyalty reward scheme, which has seen scores of
Nigerians realise their dream of financial empowerment, was designed as raffle
draw, with participation open to customers who simply needed to either
recharge, purchase or renew data bundle subscriptions, meet their 5X target,
subscribe to ‘Talkmore’ or join the Airtel network.
The nationwide promo produced a daily winner of one million
naira for 60 days and a grand prize winner of ten million naira. Other prizes
included high-end smart phones to 100 winners per week, in addition to free
talktime to over 5,000 customers. Also, for the entire 60 days of the promo all
customers on the network got 5 free SMS and subscription services to choose
from.
Speaking about the completion of the promo, Airtel Nigeria’s
Chief Operating Officer and Executive
Director, Deepak Srivastava, expressed
satisfaction with the success of the promo just as he commended customers for
their faith in the operator and its promise to continually seek out credible
platforms for empowerment.
“We are glad to have provided the platform for our customers
to express their huge faith in us as testified to by their participation,
indeed, they have always done so; but more so is the fact we are keeping our
promise to empower our customers and help them realise their dreams of
financial freedom and fulfillment,“ Deepak posited.
Speaking further, Mr. Srivastava assured of the company’s
readiness to remain at the vanguard of delivering quality telecommunication
products and offerings as well as other social benefits to the teeming
subscribers on the network.
Among those who won one million naira each include Lagos-based Yusuf Lawal Adeniyi, Aremu Akeem
Adewale, and Olabisi Odufuwa; Riro Esigbone from Delta; Ali Ibrahim, a Borno
businessman; Umoh Okon, a trader in Akwa Ibom; Catechist Samuel Ogummobi and
Port Harcourt-based business woman, Sylvia Amadasun.
Chuks Egbuna/GEE
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