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[Nigeria] Glo excites Nigerians with Say it Loud Competition

National telecoms operator, Globacom has launched a new promo that will make it possible for Nigerians to win N5 million cash as grand prize, multi-million naira consolation prizes and a golden opportunity to release songs with their favourite Glo Ambassadors.

The promo, which is designed to enliven the Valentine season and beyond is tagged Say it Loud Say it With Love, and it is a mega Interactive Voice Response (IVR) promo that allows subscribers to sing a song, recite a poem or tell a joke, all dedicated to their family in 45 seconds.‎

A statement from Globacom enjoined subscribers wishing to participate 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).

To vote for any participant, Globacom asked subscribers to dial 54888, listen to the song, poem or joke and vote for the content. Each vote is charged at N20 while voting subscribers stand a chance to be rewarded with prizes worth millions of Naira.

The promo commenced on January 23 and 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 weekly prizes. There will also be 3,600 hourly prizes of N2,500 airtime and 200 daily prizes of N25,000 cash.

Furthermore, 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, thus making the contestants rich and famous.

Globacom has a large pool of West Africa’s premium music stars as brand Ambassadors. They include 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.Others include 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.

According to Globacom’s Head of Value Added Services (VAS), Mr. Nagasai Viswanath, lucky subscribers whose songs are selected as caller tunes on the Globacom network, will enjoy the rare opportunity to earn revenue from every chosen song downloaded by subscribers as Caller Ring Back Tune.

He explained that all subscribers’ entries of songs, poems and jokes will be uploaded on the portal for the public to listen to and vote.

Mr. Viswanath added that two random voters would be picked as winners every hour, while one composer would be picked as random winner everyday and the highest weekly and monthly votes would be recorded and rewarded.‎

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