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  • Firm rewards KTQ winner with N5m cash

    Unilever will be rewarding Knorr Taste Quest (KTQ) winner with the grand prize of N5 million cash and a brand new Chevrolet car at the end of 13-week show.

    The KTQ kicked off the fifth Season of its Taste Quest TV Show, a reality cooking competition, which has become a household name in the country.

    The programme gives contestants an opportunity to display their creativity in cooking and compete to earn bragging rights as Nigeria’s top amateur Chef along with an amazing Grand Prize.

    Since inception in 2013, four winners have emerged from the Knorr Taste Quest Cooking Contest, some of whom have gone ahead to become masters in the culinary world.

    Auditions for this season took place in Abuja, Calabar and Lagos. After a rigorous process, 24 contestants made it to the first round where their cooking skills will be tested to select the final 12 for the next round.

    Speaking on the new season, Marketing Manager Savoury, Unilever Ghana and Nigeria, Nnenna Osi-Anugwa, said: “Through our brand operations we commit to improving health and well-being of our consumers and customers. The Knorr brand is fortified with iron and other ingredients that make our food nutritious and healthy.”

    “The KTQ Show is a platform that gives Nigeria’s amateur chefs opportunities to showcase their culinary skills while they learn from professionals how to make creative and nutritious meals with Knorr,” she added. The judges of the show remain celebrity chefs Robert and Chef Fregz, while it will be hosted by Arit Okpo.

  • Navgas rewards drivers

    NAVGAS Limited has rewarded members of the National Union of Petroleum Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) Unit of the company for their loyalty to the firm at an event titled: Drivers loyalty and reward programme.

    At the firm’s premises in Apapa, Lagos, it held the grand finale of its maiden raffle draw where the major winners emerged. They were Uche Morah of SuperTech, who won the first prize of a Power bike, Gbenga Adelodun, who got a deep freezer while the third prize of a flat screenTV went to Ahmed Oyewunmi.

    There were also consolation prizes for 13 drivers who scored between 150,000 and 250,000 points. They got a carton of indomie each. Earlier, as part of the progarmme, the firm also gave out recharge cards to the drivers.

    Navgas Operations Manager Mr Monday Adeoye said the draws started last year with 300 drivers and that only 91 qualified for the final draws. He reiterated that the programme was aimed at promoting safety consciousness among the drivers, noting that they were their key stakeholders in the industry. He thanked them for being loyal allies in business.

    The firm’s Managing Director Merlin Figueria assisted by NUPENG’s Acting Chairman Suleiman Amusa presented the star gifts to representatives of the winners. Amusa expressed satisfaction with the draws. He noted that it was the first time that a company would hold such an event for NUPENG members, urging Navgas to keep it up. ‘’The draw is very good. Navgas has done very well. It is the first time that a company would do this for us,’’ he said.

  • CBN rewards FirstBank’s fight against e-fraud

    CBN rewards FirstBank’s fight against e-fraud

    FirstBank has won two of the three awards in the keenly-contested Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) Annual Dinner and Awards Night held at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.

    FirstBank FraudDesk emerged as the “Best FraudDesk” and the “most Cooperative FraudDesk” in the Industry.

    These are  recognition of the  bank’s efforts in combating e-fraud as well as curbing cyber-crime, thereby frustrating all forms of criminal activities targeted at its valued customers in every nook and cranny of the country.

    The winner was generated through an  online survey carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria in partnership with NIBBS.

    The bank with the majority of votes across all sectors won.

    The awards prove that investment in security of customer’s funds does have its rewards.

    Following the appointment of Dr. Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan as FirstBank MD/ CEO, FirstBank management embarked on reengineering  of the bank’s technology, operations and upscaling the skill of its personnel with security of its customer’s funds as key priority, given the bank’s massive investments in alternate electronic transaction channels and technology.

  • Oxford rewards workers,gives plot of land to customers

    Oxford rewards workers,gives plot of land to customers

    Oxford Commercial Services International Limited has given awards to 13 members of its staff for their dedication and committment.

    Some of the awardees are: the Managing Director, Teni Adesanya, who won the Leadership Award; Head of Operation, Mr. Oti (Jonathan Business Leadership); Public Relations Officer, Mr. Lesli Ademola (Perfect Presence); Mr. Bayo Egbetokun (Excellence Award); Kunle Adesanya (Manager of the Year) and a host of others.

    At the ceremony, which held at Havanna Hotels and Suit, Egbeda, Lagos , recently,the firm also gave  out a free plot of land to one of its customers, Mrs. Akinbode Olajumoke, who won a raffle draw organised by the company to mark its first year anniversary.

    Apart from the free plot of land, located at Atan-Ota, Ogun State, with  receipt number 457, the outfit also gave out discounts ranging from 25 to 75 per cent as well as consolation prizes.

    When The Nation Shopping spoke with some of the winners, they expressed their gratitude to God and to Oxford Commercial Services.

    For instance, Mrs. Lateefat Abasi, who won a 50 per cent discount, expressed  gratitude to the company’s management. She said played the lottery with N1000 she borrowed from her friend, Mrs. Funmilayo Daudu.

    She said: “I’m so happy because I wasn’t expecting it. That is why it is good to be optimistic. It was my friend that lent me N1, 000  to subscribe for the land because I didn’t have enough money. I subscribed for half plot at Ewekoro, which costs N200,000 but now I will be paying N150,000.

    “It was Mrs. Toyin Adebayo, a staff of Oxford that spoke about the land promo to me yesterday and I just decided to come see how its being done,” she said.

    She said; “When Obatunde, a staff of Oxford, spoke about the land promo, some people said it was a scam. But I only came to see by myself if it’s real. I subscribed for Atan-Ota half plot worth of N175, 000 but now I will be given a full plot that cost N250, 000,” she said.

    Speaking at the ceremony, the firm’s Managing Director, Mr. Adesanya, said that the anniversary also coincided with the launch of its Oxford Flexy Housing Scheme.

    “The Oxford Flexy will give you opportunity to complete your payment in five years and allocation will be given to you immediately you pay your first instalment,” he explained.

  • Fun, rewards as AFRIFF 2017 ends with Globe Awards

    Fun, rewards as AFRIFF 2017 ends with Globe Awards

    The 7th edition of the Africa International Film Festival, AFRIFF, came to a close last Saturday with its signature AFRIFF Globe Award which featured music, drama and most importantly, award presentations which held at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    Describing the week-long activities, as simply splendid, AFRIFF founder, Chioma Ude, expressed gratitude to her team for being with her through seven years of organizing what she describes as one of the biggest film festivals in Africa.

    Hosted by Nollywood actress, Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju, supported by a French counterpart, Serge Noukoue, convener of Nollywood  Week Paris, the activities which kicked off with a saxophone rendition of the Nigerian national anthem, maintained AFRIFF’s tradition of hosting a Broadway-themed show.

    Welcoming guests to the ceremony, AFRIFF’s Project Director, Afie Braimoh described the festival as a week of well planned events, training over 150 students, entertaining over 200 primary schools and educating many through topical panel discussions and of course, great parties.

    “It’s been seven years and we want to thank our partners and sponsors who have come on this great journey with us. As always, AFRIFF aims to please,” she said.

    With over three thousand entries which produced a thousand five hundred selections, the festival, witness a series of screenings, panel discussions, trainings and sessions for school kids.

    After series of screenings, the Jury finally came up with winners for the AFRIFF Globe Award. Among them were; Best Student Short Film, The Fall (South Africa); Best Short Film, 1745 (UK); Best Documentary, We Have Never Been Kids; Audience Choice Award, Lost Café by Kenneth Gyang; Best French Language Film, Hulu (Mali); Oronto Douglas Memorial Award for Best Nigerian Film, Hakkunde (Nig); Best Screenplay, Dauda Coulibali (Hulu); Best Actor, Ibrahim Kumar (Hulu); Best Actress, Lydia Forson (Keteke); Best Director, Alian Gomis (Felicite); Best Film, I Am Not A Witch (Zambia).

    One of the high points of the show was Kemi Lala’s rendition the late Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela. Her entrance was themed after the classic movie, ‘Coming to America’.

    Maintaining its Broadway tradition, the night also witnessed a drama depicting the challenges filmmakers go through like interference from touts, instance charges from policemen (who may have difficulties deciphering the different contexts of the movie parlance, shoot),  and most important of all, power outage.

    Starring Kunle Afolayan, Kelechi Udegbe (Officer Titus), Greg Oj, the drama also proffers solutions to some of the challenges.

    Addressing the audience, President of the Jury, Janaina Oliveira, from Brazil said that AFRIFF 2017 has been such a wonderful experience.

    “There have been so many stories of such high quality that kept the jury busy for many hours. The jury explored stories of life, love, sorrow and hope. The only criteria that we were expected to have was to celebrate cinema and that is what we as jury have done this week in every way possible. Nigerian cinema is clearly on the move and we’d like to place emphasis on that. It was a real panorama of filming in Africa. And that is why we’d like to present the special prize for outstanding film to Moses Ewang’s movie, Alter Ego,” she said.

    Also speaking, Katie Simmons, the head of Canon, Africa described AFRIFF as an exciting, all encompassing platform to showcase and celebrate the rich and diverse film industry in Africa as well as recognizing the huge opportunity that lay ahead.

    “Canon is honoured to be a part of the festival in its seventh year and we look forward to continuous collaboration,” she said.

    Among the scholarship winners were Alade Olufemi, Ojo Oluwafunmi, Dorcas Adetunji, Eric Nwanso, Sope Martins, Angel Oposo, Nnamdi Agbo, Moses Akerele, Amaka Okorogu and a host of others.

    Meanwhile, the previous day, AFRIFF wrapped up its movie screenings with a Senegalese movie, Félicité. A French word for happiness, the movie dwells on life’s ironies and enduring love of a mother.

    A film by Alian Gomis, Félicité revolves around a local singer, Félicité who desperately needs money for her 14 year-old son Samo who is involved in a motorbike accident.

    Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, a Congolese actress, plays Félicité, a role which fetched her the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

    The movie also stars Gaetan Claudia (Samo), Papi Mpaka (Tabu), Nadine Ndebo (Hortense), Elbas Manuana (Luisant) and Kasai Allstars, a 25-piece musical collective based in Kinshasa, who play themselves.

  • Eko Tag rewards artists at Art115

    Eko Tag rewards artists at Art115

    In engage, appreciate and reward local artists, five artists have expressed their creativity in a live art competition as part of ART115, an event organised by Eko Tag team.

    The event, which was sponsored by First City Monument Bank (FCMB) was held at the Sanusi Fafunwa Plaza, Victoria Island, Lagos branch of the bank recently.

    Five artists spent two hours interpretating the bank’s building from different perspectives.

    While some interpreted the building in clean lines, others used bold pen strokes and even oil paint.

    At the end, the works by Obi Chigozie and Abiola Sodiq were adjudged the two top picks based on uniqueness and technique. However, foremost Nigerian graffiti artist, Osa Seven, presented prizes to the participants on behalf of Eko Tag team and FCMB.

    “Art115 was a fun and absolute success that left everyone feeling like a part of something significant,” said the organisers in a statement.

    “The winning pieces will be placed on display in a chosen FCMB branch.”

    Since it began its partnership with the Eko Tag platform, FCMB has been involved in encouraging the emergence of fresh art talents.

  • Firm initiates campaign, rewards Nigerians

    Lipton, is a brand of tea, owned by Unilever is carrying out a campaign tagged ThinkLessDoMore meant to reward hard working people within the society.

    The company had announced, for the second consecutive year, its plan to celebrate with Nigerians  through its #Don’tJustThinkDo campaign. This campaign which was aimed at promoting the values that Ramadan stands for was to get Nigerians to imbibe the habit of doing good.

    According to the company, the campaign promotes the essence of doing good. “Lipton didn’t just stop at telling people to do good, it actually went to several cities in the country including; Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna to search for people who are doing good in their communities so as to reward them with gifts,” it said.

    Some of the beneficiaries in the campaign are Hassan Black, who helps keep a popular market in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, clean; Florence Okeme, a dedicated traffic warden in Yaba, Lagos; and Bimbo Akinsanya, the founder of a non-governmental organization (NGO) which is committed to ensuring that young less-privileged ladies in public secondary school and local communities have access to hygiene materials, educational talks and mentorship opportunities, among others.

    “If more Nigerians, as a result of this campaign, start doing more good, there is no doubt that the country will be better, peaceful, safer and more prosperous. The positive effect it will have on various sectors of the economy will be massive,” the company said.

    Brand Manager, Lipton, Adetayo Adesokan  said: “Don’t Just Think Do isn’t just another campaign, but a well thought out approach to promote the virtues of doing good acts in the country, it was launched in order to drastically improve the number of good deeds that are done by Nigerians daily.”

    “We are trying to paint the picture that shows how Nigerians should strive to relate with one another, we are sharing with Nigerians of all backgrounds and from any of the six political zones, what they can do to improve their societies,” he concluded.

    Giving, showing love, and caring for one another, sowing seeds of kindness, are all necessary activities that we all need to do in order to achieve our goal of creating the society we dream of.

    Lipton has paved the way and set the pace for Nigerians to emulate through its #Don’tJustThinkDo campaign. We all have a duty to make a commitment to ramp up the good deeds we do on a daily basis in order to make the society a better place.

    “The brand’s goal was to get more Nigerians to start taking positive actions. Lipton wanted to show more Nigerians the positive ripple effects that doing good will have on themselves, and the nation in extension. To achieve this, it embarked on a series of activities to win more people into its army of “do good-ers” including engaging with Nigerians on conversations surrounding the topic across various media platforms, and embarking on a nationwide tour to reward and celebrate Nigerians who are doing selfless acts in their respective communities,” the firm said.

    Continuing, the firm said: “Nigeria is full of pleasant people, resilient individuals who are filled with enthusiasm and passion regardless of whatever they might be going through, regardless of the impediments, obstacles or challenges they might be facing. This spirit of Nigerians can be seen across the nation and beyond. Most people in Nigeria, irrespective of their region, tribe or religion are warm and kind individuals, however, most times, in their quest to earn a living and better their lives, they forget to look out for the next person as actively as they normally would”.

    “Lipton is leveraging on the ideals that Ramadan stands for this season to get more Nigerians to tap into the beauty of giving, of sharing love and care to their neighbours. Ramadan has always been a period of introspection, a period of discipline, a time to show love, a time to share, to sow the seeds of kindness, and through the ‘Don’t Just Think Do’ campaign, Lipton aims to get more people to move from just thinking, to actually taking doing these good deeds”.

  • Access Bank rewards Family Fortune promo winners

    Access Bank rewards Family Fortune promo winners

    Access Bank Plc rewarded 60 customers in its ongoing Family Fortune promo. The winners were selected through a transparent raffle draw from which different gift items were given out.  The exercise was the lender’s efforts to encourage collective family savings.

    The family banking scheme is a saving scheme designed to encourage families to save together and enjoy exclusive privileges (Interest rates and family rewards) while they continue to enjoy the confidentiality of their banking relation and manage their accounts as unique individuals.

    Speaking at the event, the bank’s Executive Director, Business Banking Division Access Bank, Titi Osuntoki said the essence of the scheme is to encourage Nigerians to cultivate the habit of saving in an exciting manner.

    She urged families to come together and have a collective savings goal, and get  rewarded in the course of the promo, which ends in August this year.

    According to her, “it is in line with the bank’s aspirations of being a forerunner in terms of innovation, professionalism and value added services to our customers. The Promo tagged, ‘Family Fortune’ is probably the first of its kind in the industry and it is designed to reward the collective saving habit of families with exciting prizes and competitive interest rates while they enjoy banking as individuals.”

    Osuntoki further defined a family as nuclear and extended consisting of a group of people related by blood or marriage and must be a minimum of four to be eligible for the promo.

  • BUA Cement rewards distributors with N100m

    BUA Cement has set aside about N100 million to reward distributors who surpassed sales target in the year.

    BUA Group Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, said at the company’s yearly Distributors’ Forum and Awards, explained that through an expansion drive that would span across its production plants, the firm would double its production capacity.

    He said distributors who performed well would be rewarded with cash, cars and other prizes, adding that the group planned to increase its market share and penetration through efficient service delivery and operational framework.

    Defending the price of the commodity, Rabiu explained that the price of the commodity is cheap when compared with other African countries, especially with the declining value of Naira, adding that cement production is a challenging business.

    He, however, noted that despite the harsh operating environment, the company would continue to meet the aspirations of its stakeholders.

    He said: “We have embarked on an expansion drive and this will be completed in 2018. Cement business is a very challenging one, because it is a capital intensive business; but I want to assure you that our expansion project will be completed by the end of next year or at the beginning of 2018.”

    Presenting the gifts to the distributors, Rabiu said: “This award is our little way of celebrating you as you have been with us constantly throughout the year. Your loyalty to the brand has helped us to grow and we will continue to celebrate customers who have been there in this period of economic crisis.”

  • Indomie rewards kids with N6 million

    Indomie rewards kids with N6 million

    Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles, has rewarded three outstanding children who emerged winners of this year’s Indomie Independence Awards, with the sum or N6 million at this year’s Indomie Independence Day Award ceremony held in Lagos.

    The grand event which witnessed a large turnout of dignitaries, saw some renowned personalities like the Group Managing Director, First Bank, Bisi Onasanya; Senator Gbenga Ashafa; Chairman Masandola Group, Chief Bode Akindele, among others.

    These personalities, in lending support to the children and indomie, added glamour to the event by donating N2.25million, N500,000, and N1million.

    The Indomie Independence Day Award for Heroes of Nigeria is a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie Instant Noodles and is geared towards recognising children of 15 years and below who have exhibited extraordinary acts of heroism in the face of danger or societal challenge which have sometimes brought them injury.

    While delivering the keynote address at the event, the Executive Director, Corona Schools, Mrs. Olufunto Igun, said: “The future of any nation or entity lies heavily on the children, whatever legacy we pass on, whether good or bad could make or mar us as a nation. We, therefore, must rise up to our responsibility as parents, guardians, schools, and government to ensure that the right values are inculcated in the children.”

    Addressing the winners as “the salvation for the nation’s future and the economy,” she charged more organisations to toe the line of Dufil Prima Foods by also contributing their own quota to ensure a more secure and blissful future for our kids.

    The Group Managing Director, Dufil Prima Foods, Mr. Deepak Singhal, expressed delight at the success of the event.  “Our motivation rests firmly on the fact that a lot of kids are out there who do the extraordinary day- by-day; they are the unsung heroes who have never been celebrated. That is why we have resolved that every year we would not relent in our search all around Nigeria for unique acts of bravery, worthy of celebration,” he said.

    The award, which is the seventh edition, produced such winners as 15-year-old Aniema Udokang from Cross River, for his assistance in saving an accident victim on IBB way in Calabar; 14-year-old Semiya Modashiru helped save the lives of two babies by apprehending and confronting a kidnapper at a bus garage in Ogijo, while 10-year-old Bassey Itam helped a boy bitten by a snake.

    The winners in the first, second and third categories went home with N1,000,000, N750,000, and N500,000 worth of scholarship.