A total 17 lucky subscribers who constituted the first set of winners in Glo Lucky Number Game have been rewarded with cash prizes ranging fromN100,000 to N1,000,000.
The winners received their prizes at a presentation ceremony in Lagos while winners outside Lagos got their cheques at designated locations across Nigeria. Many more Glo subscribers are expected to emerge winners in the weeks and months ahead.
The daily draw game was created in collaboration with NCC-licensed Aggregator, Pisimobile, and VAS Provider, Yellowdot. With the game, subscribers’ mobile numbers are automatically entered into a random selection process while a subscriber’s number must sequentially match a randomly selected number from the pool of active Glo subscribers, matched from right to left.
Lagos-based dry cleaner, Yusuf Malzo from Bauchi State, a winner was ecstatic about his N1,000,000 jackpot. “The money would come in handy in expanding my business”, he said.
In the same vein, Olajide Afolabi, a security man based in Ondo town won N500,000. Afolabi said he had been playing the number game for some time, though he had been unlucky. “Just as I was about giving up, my name was announced as a winner”, he disclosed adding, “ I promise to continue to play as the money has changed my life”.
Similarly, Emmanuel Henry who had placed himself on auto play every day and every month, got a N100,000 win. The Lagos-based driver said his prize had encouraged him to keep playing the number game in order to win more money.
Globacom’s head of Value Added Services, Mojeed Aluko, explained that the Lucky Number game is for everyone on the Glo network. “Customers can subscribe in two ways. The first is to dial the USSD code *4445# and follow the instructions. They can also text WIN or WINOT (daily), LW or LWOT (Weekly), LM or LMOT (Monthly) to the short code 4445”, he added.
