Encomium
As part of efforts to make this year’s Valentine Season and beyond a memorable one, National Telecommunications Company, Globacom has unveiled a new promo which offers lucky subscribers a grand prize of N5 million and several consolation prizes, including a golden opportunity to sing with their favourite Glo Ambassadors in a recording contract.
Tagged “Say it Loud – Say it with Love, the promo is a mega Interactive Voice Response (IVR) contest that allows subscribers to sing a song, recite a poem or tell a joke, all dedicated to their family in 45 seconds.
To participate in the promo, subscribers are urged to dial a short code 54887 to record and upload their 45-second song, poem or a joke for N50 on the portal. The subscriber will then receive an SMS with his individual ID number (54888xxxxx). This number could be dialed to vote for the participant. N20 is charged per vote. Voters are also rewarded with exciting prizes.
To vote for any participant, one can dial 54888, listen to the song, poem or joke and then vote for the content.
The promo which commenced on January 23 will last for 100 days. Apart from the star prize of N5 million, three winners will each take home N2.5m monthly, 14 winners will receive N1m each in prizes weekly and there will be 3,600 hourly prizes of N2,500 in airtime and 200 daily prizes of N25,000 cash.
In addition to these prizes, ten subscribers will sign a contract to have their songs as Caller Ring Back Tunes and composers of the top three songs will have the opportunity to record a remix of their entries with a Glo Ambassador, a proposition that will make the contestants rich and famous.
Globacom parades an array of West Africa’s top music stars as brand Ambassadors. The long list includes Bisade Ologunde (Lagbaja), Jude Abaga (MI), Oyebanjo Oladapo Daniel (D’banj), Oluwatobi Wande Ojosipe (Wande Coal), Chinedu Okolie (Flavour), Peter and Paul Okoye (P Square), Waje Iruobe, Omawumi Megbele, Chukie Edozien (Lynxx), Sammie Okposo, Bezhiwa Idakula (Bez) and Ego Ogbaro.
Other top singers from Nigeria are : Damini Ogulu (Burnaboy), Chidima Okebalama (Chee) and Naeto Chikwe (Naeto C).
The network’s Ambassadors in Ghana include Kwabena Kwabena (George Adu) , Irene Logan, Edem, Asem, Sherifa Gunu, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley while Globacom’s Ambassador in Benin Republic is Zeynab Abibou.
The winners of the Say it Loud Promo will enjoy the rare privilege of recording a duet with some of these stars.
In a statement, Globacom’s Head of Value Added Services (VAS), Mr. Nagasai Viswanath, said lucky subscribers whose songs are selected as caller tunes on the Globacom network, will enjoy the privilege of earning revenue from every chosen song downloaded by subscribers as ring back tune.
The statement further that all subscribers’ entries of songs, poems and jokes will be uploaded on the portal for the public to listen to and vote.
