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360 customers smile home in First Bank’s ‘Big Splash Promo’

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first bank big splashThree hundred and sixty customers of the First Bank Plc smiled home on Thursday for winning different items in the bank’s ‘Big Splash Promo’.

The Promo draw, which was held at the Oakland Event Places in Enugu also featured the presentation of a brand new Toyota car to a savings customer, Mrs. Ufoh Obiageli, who emerged winner during a draw held earlier in the year at Ibadan.

In a welcome address delivered by Mr. Austin Agbahiwe, the bank’s Business Development Manager in charge of Owerre, he stated that the promo campaign, which is the 5th in the series, “aims to reward tha bank’s loyal customers who have continued to identify/do business with us, for their long-standing patronage and at the same time create opportunity for prospects to establish new relationships with the Bank.

“It is also an avenue through which the First Bank brand is constantly refreshed as a dorminant player in Nigeria’s retail banking space”.

He disclosed that through the promo which was launched on June 26, 2008, the Bank has enriched about 6000 customers with well over N500,000,000 (five hundred million naira) worth of reward items in cash, automobiles and household gifts.

Agbahiwe continued that “as we celebrate our 120 years of banking services in Nigeria, we consider it worthy to also reward our loyal customers in a special and unique way.

“Our Bank will be giving away a completed 4-bedroom terrace house worth N50 million, located in the high-brow area of Lekki to a customer just for saving N20,000 for ten months. In other words, this promo will produce a new landlord of a new terrace house in Lekki, Lagos State by the time it winds up on July 2014”.

Apart the house, other prizes for grabs according to him include 720 refrigerators for 720 customers, 720 gas cookers for 720 customers, 50,000 cash bonus for 720 customers and 12 brand new Toyota Corrolla cars for 12 customers.

He further stated that in the on-going promo which started on July 1, 2013, the Bank has so far given 50,000 to 360 savings customers, 3f0 refrigerators to 360 customers, 360 gas-cookers to 360 customers and 9 brand new Toyota Corolla cars to 9 customers.

In a speech at the event, the South-East zonal coordinator of the National Lottery Commission, Mr. Michael Eke observed that the Bank had over the years maintained its high standard in dealing with its promo.

He added that in the on-going promo “we have consulted with KPMG and we are quite sure that the process is very transparent; every person stands a chance to emerge a winner”.

In a remark, the highly elated Mrs, Ufoh Obiageli the head teacher of Udoka Primary School, Ezi Owerre in Anambra State, who won a brand new Toyota Corolla car, said “in short I was very surprised, I never expected it, it is still like a joke to me; I thank the First Bank, I thank everybody”.

To qualify for the bi-monthly draw, a customer is expected to deposit 10,000 and leave it in the account for 30 days, while for the quarterly draw, the customer needs to deposit N20,000 and leave it for 90 days.

In the case of the grand finale, a customer needs to deposit N20,000 every month, or make a deposit of N200,000 and leave it for 10 months.