In a bid to fulfill their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to Nigerians, Itel Nigeria and its sister telecommunication firm, Airtel, have donated gift items worth millions of naira to the University of Calabar (UNILCAL) students as part of their contributions to ‘Campus All Star Promo’.
At the ceremony, which took place at Chinua Achebe Art Theatre Hall at the institution’s main campus where students participated in different competitions and many going home with different prizes from their sponsors, one of the Airtel managers, Uche Ugwueze, stated that the Itel Campus Storm that took place across the nation on Monday was held to test abilities of students and to build thier capacities in the areas of speaking fluently and robbing minds and exchange of ideas among themselves.
“This is an Itel Campus Storm that we are having across the country. And Airtel is here to support Itel.
“As a company, we are here to ensure that we delight the students and make sure that students are able to talk frequently among themselves.
“As a company, we are here to support the students with free SIM cards, and very affordable recharges. So for every student that pick up an Airtel SIM card, he or she gets airtime bonus of every recharge and also have opportunity to use data for the next three months,” Ugwueze stated.
Reacting, director of socials, University of Calabar Students Union Government (SUG), Owo Michele, lauded the management of the telecommunication companies for the partnership and ensuring that the event was successful.
In his words, Owo said: “You can see that the event is looking nice, so far students are happy, everybody is having fun, things are smooth, a lot of takeaways, drinks with a nice weather. We are grateful to our sponsors.
“I want to say thank you to our sponsors, this event is coming in my own tenure. I feel so happy.”
Many students carted away phones and other gifts items from Itel-Airtel and Smooth event.
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