Lucozade Excites Consumers With N200million Airtime

L-R: Marketing Director, Rosemary Akpo; Head of Lucozade Brands & Innovation; Chika Adibo and HR & Corporate Affairs Director, Ola Ehinmoro all of Suntory Beverage and Food Nigeria Limited at the launch of the 2018 Lucozade Airtime Promotion in Lagos…

…Rolls Out Its 3^rd Edition Of The Airtime Promotion

L-R: Supply Chain & Operations Director, Cephas Afebuameh; Country Sales Director, Ademola Adeoye; Managing Director, Chinedum Okereke; and Marketing Director, Rosemary Akpo all of Suntory Beverage and Food Nigeria Limited at the launch of the 2018 Lucozade Airtime Promotion in Lagos…

In line with its commitment to reward and appreciate loyal consumers, Suntory Beverage and Food Nigeria Limited (SBFN), makers of Lucozade, has set aside N200million worth of Instant Airtime to reward consumers in the 3^rd edition of its “Lucozade Under-the-Cap Airtime National Promotion”.

At the media launch of the promotion in Lagos, the Managing Director, SBFN, Mr. Chinedum Okereke, announced the kick-off of the 2018 Lucozade Airtime promotion during his opening address. “We are proud to announce the return of the successful Lucozade Airtime Promotion for the third time since its launch in 2016. The promotion is an avenue for us to attain nationwide reach as far as rewarding our consumers is concerned, and the modality of the promotion gives us a great opportunity to target millions of consumers.”

L-R: Managing Director, Chinedum Okereke; Marketing Director, Rosemary Akpo; Head of Lucozade Brands & Innovation; Chika Adibo and HR & Corporate Affairs Director, Ola Ehinmoro all of Suntory Beverage and Food Nigeria Limited at the launch of the 2018 Lucozade Airtime Promotion in Lagos…

At the event, the Marketing Director, Mrs. Rosemary Akpo, said “The Airtime promotion is very important to us at SBFN as it gives us an avenue to connect with our target audience on a large scale. The uniqueness of this promotion lies in the fact that every participant who sends in a valid code, stands a chance to win instant airtime, regardless of geographical location or mobile network”.

Specifically designed to reward new and existing consumers who purchase Lucozade Boost or Lucozade Sport Orange PET with a yellow cover, consumers are required to look under the cover and text the code to 20966 for free.

Explaining the objective of the promotion, the Head of Lucozade Brands and Innovation, Mrs. Chika Adibo said, “The Lucozade Airtime promo is our way of rewarding our esteemed consumers for their loyalty and patronage over the years, and also restate our commitment to helping people feel energized and be the best version of themselves all day. We also encourage new consumers to come on board via this platform”.

The Lucozade Airtime Promotion 3.0, which launched in May 2018, is open to users on all mobile networks and provides an opportunity for consumers to instantly recharge their energy and their phones. 

Lipton Yellow Label Tea Is Giving Widows Across Nigeria A ‘Reason To Smile’

 Becoming a widow in Nigeria is often followed by a fall into extreme poverty – a situation usually aggravated by widespread practice of property grabbing and sometimes, physical abuse. Consequently, they are subjected to food insecurity due to poverty or unemployment, failure to find basic and school necessities for their children, lack of shelter, difficulty in accessing working capital for small-scale businesses, and victimization by harmful cultural practices.

In many traditional settings, the death of a husband can put women at the risk of social segregation and the loss of the security and social status their partners would have provided. They are immediately banished to the fringe of society and suffer different forms of stigma and discrimination.

For any nation or society interested in fostering progressive development, it is important that citizens create a social climate conducive for collective achievement. Apart from the need to adopt a friendly culture that dignifies victims and recognizes their pain, widows need support systems that provide opportunities to reintegrate into society after the loss of their spouses.

Glo, Huawei sign contract for Glo 2 submarine cable

Globacom’s Executive Director, Legal, Mrs. Gladys Talabi; Mr. Folu Aderibigbe of Globacom, and Deputy Managing Director, Huawei Technologies, Mr Li Shaowei, at a contract-signing ceremony between the two companies  on the construction of Glo 2, a multi-billion naira optic fibre submarine cable on Tuesday at  the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

 Fully integrated telecommunications company, Globacom, has entered into agreement with Huawei for the laying of another trans-Atlantic submarine cable to complement Glo 1.

The second submarine cable will consolidate Globacom’s ambitious plan to comprehensively transform Nigeria’s ICT landscape.

Glo 2 will be laid along the Nigerian coast from Alpha Beach in Lagos where its precursor, Glo 1 has a landing station, extending to major cities in the southern part of the country. 

At a signing ceremony between Globacom and Huawei, at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island on Tuesday, Globacom’s Regional Director, Technical, Mr. Sanjib Roy, said the facility will enable ultra high capacity connection to the South-South Region and the offshore oil platforms and communities. 

Boniface Ogbonnaya  and Linda Nwagbo of Globacom; Deputy Managing Director, Huawei Technologies, Mr. Li Shaowei;  Augusta Nwoke and Chathapuram Anand Viswanathan of Globacom at a contract-signing ceremony between the two companies  on the construction of Glo 2, a multi-billion Naira optic fibre submarine cable on Tuesday in Lagos.

Mr. Roy said the new cable would boost telecommunications service delivery in the country by providing economic and social empowerment for the oil producing communities. 

The facility will provide high speed internet connectivity for the oil platforms and boost productivity and efficiency.

“Glo2 will be the first submarine cable in Nigeria to land outside Lagos as the five existing submarine cables only landed in Lagos. Glo 2 will have capacity of 12Terabit per second and will provide ultra-high speed connection to oil platforms and communities to empower data coverage and support Enterprise market growth in this part of Nigeria,” Mr Roy explained.

According to him, Glo 2 would be the first to provide dedicated submarine fibreoptic cable to oil platforms to support the growth of Nigerian Economy and allow Oil Communities to reduce their operational expenditure.

PHOTOS: Media personality, Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru-Demuren Launches Lingerie Line, Sablier

 Popular media personality, Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru-Demuren recently launched Sablier (“Sab-Lee-Ay”), a premium fuller bust lingerie line. Sablier – which is French for ‘hourglass’ – was created to cater to the often overlooked plus-sized market.

Toolz who reflected on her experience growing up as a full-bodied woman further detailed her journey towards accepting her body shape and size. 

“The journey to accepting my body hasn’t been easy. As a curvy girl, you tend to feel out of place - my body type wasn’t the hot thing back then. I just didn’t fit in,” she said.

“I want ladies, irrespective of their size or body types, to be confident and love themselves, and essentially embrace their beautiful, because beauty is from within and is not dependent on what society dictates.”

She further explains that it took her some time to come to a breakthrough about seeing herself through a lens of body positivity. That change in perspective was something she wanted to share, but not just through words. 

UI Admits Only 3,514 Out of 53,513 Candidates

Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan vowed he would not admit any JAMB candidate that scored 120 in UTME.  (Financial Quest) 

The Vice Chancellor advised the new students against using codeine and tramadol saying it can affect their academic performance.

Out of the 53,513  UTME candidates who sought admission into the University of Ibadan, the institution has matriculated only 3,514 candidates.

The figure according to the Guardian also includes 446 direct entry candidates who emerged out of the 2,659 applicants for admission into the university.

While addressing the new students, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Idowu Olayinkasaid the success rate for admission in the institution currently stands at 6.6 percent for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) students while direct entry admission stands at 16.8 percent.

“With the very high quality of our intakes on account of the rigorous and transparent admission process, it is much easier for the camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a UTME applicant to secure admission into this institution. We make bold to state here that our admission is easily the most competitive among all the universities in the country,”

President Launches UG Endowment Fund

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday [Monday, 8 May] launched the University of Ghana Endowment Fund, which is meant to provide additional funding and resources to enable the University improve upon the delivery on its mandate.

Delivering an address at the event, held at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, the president said proceeds from the Fund would assist in the provision of additional facilities to enhance research and teaching.

Describing it as an excellent initiative, he stated Funds such as this constitute the fulcrum around which most world-class universities in the world operate.

“My government fully supports and shares in your vision to become a research-intensive university, and we will do all in our power to help you actualize this,” he added.

President Akufo-Addo urged the University of Ghana, as well as all tertiary institutions in the country, to find innovative and effective ways of linking up with industry and the corporate world, to engage in quality, strategic research, targeted at finding practical solutions to real life challenges of our society, and thereby actualize research findings to the benefit of our country.