Nigeria: Glo Takes Outstanding Winners to Old Trafford for Bolton Match

31 March 2011

FOUR outstanding Glo subscribers have returned from an all- expense-paid trip to Manchester in the United Kingdom where they watched the Manchester United FC versus Bolton Match at the latter’s Old Trafford turf.

The subscribers are winners of the telecom service provider’s “Recharge and Go To Old Trafford” promo who could not undertake the trip at the time they won because of their professional engagements.

The winners are Emem Francis, a lawyer based in Abuja, Rafiu Aliu, a seaman, Olamide Oyedotun, a Lagos-based National Youth Service Corp member and Mashood Ariyo, a teacher in Offa, Kwara State.

A statement from Globacom explained that the quartet could not make the trip earlier because they were not released by their employers when they were contacted to proceed on the trip. “However we believe in keeping our word to subscribers and maintaining the integrity of our promotions. So we insisted on creating another opportunity for these outstanding winners to go to Old Trafford even though we have rounded off Season II of the “Recharge and Go to Old Trafford” promo”, the statement said.

The winners who incidentally are all lovers of football and fans of Manchester United described their trip as “a dream come true”. Aliu said it was more than he bargained for: “Even though I travel around the world as a sailor, I had never been to the UK, so it was quite a wonderful experience to be able to watch my team live at the Theatre of Dreams”. Aliu explained that he has been on the Glo network since 2005 and that he makes and receives calls on the line even when he is on sea.

Olamide, who is serving in Lagos, said she was deeply thrilled to have watched her favourite player, Dmitir Berbatov, live on a day he was the man of the match. “I particular looked forward to Berbatov making my day and I was not disappointed”, she said. While on the trip, the winners met members of the Man United team with their officials and were hosted to dinner by the club. They also went on a tour of the Old Trafford grounds as well as site seeing in the city of Manchester.

The new season of the Recharge and Go to Old Trafford promo was flagged off in September 2010 and has so far produced close to 2,000 winners, including winners of trips to Old Trafford, winners of cash prizes and free air time.

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