Financial inclusion: Fidelity Bank rewards 12 customers with N13m

Fidelity Bank Plc on Friday rewarded 12 customers with N13 million in the fifth draw of “Get Alert in Million Reloaded” aimed at strengthening the culture of saving among Nigerians.

Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo, the bank’s Managing Director, said in Lagos that the promo, the seventh in the series in the last 10 years, was instituted to promote financial inclusion and savings culture.

Okonkwo, who was represented by Mr Richard Ebo, the Regional Head, Retail Banking, said the bank had given a total of N81 million in cash and 90 consolation prizes to 183 winners under the “Get Alert in Millions Reloaded’’.

He said that the bank’s major priority was to reward its customers through different initiatives to improve their living standards.

Okonkwo said that the consolation prizes included television sets, power generators and refrigerators, noting that a grand prize of N10 million would be won by a lucky customer at the end of the promo.

He said the bank would remain committed to initiatives that would touch lives and boost savings culture among Nigerians.

He said the initiative was in line with Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) financial inclusion initiative.

Winners emerged from a transparent process driven by the bank’s control team and witnessed by officials from Consumer Protection Council (CPC) and other regulators and stakeholders.

Two customers from South East, Ugonwa Uchechukwu from Nkpor Branch, Anambra State and Chukwuemeka Umeje from Iweka Road branch, Onitsha won N1 million each.

Other lucky winners for the monthly draw were Mr Sani Sule, Warri branch and Ala Andrew of Rivers State University, who won N1 million each under South/South zone.

Damilare Emmanuel of Saka Tinubu branch, Lagos and Isreal Ogechi Nwaobialor of Egbeda branch won N1 million and N2 million under the Lagos zone.