36 millionaires emerge in Skye Bank promo

Niyi Olaoye

36 customers of Skye Bank Plc have won one million Naira each in its nationwide ‘Reach for the Skye’ Millionaire promo. The emergence of 36 millionaires ended the first phase of the millionaire promo.

Sharing his experience as a beneficiary of the promo, Mr. Job Abiona Fatunbi, a truck driver who won N1 million in the April draw held at Ikotun, Lagos said: “I had no idea that 2016 would be a year of tremendous blessings for me; but thanks to Skye Bank, my dreams of financial freedom finally came true, winning a million Naira in the promo turned my family’s circumstances around and it has changed my perception about the difficulty involved in saving.”

Abiona’s happiness was echoed by Mr. Bashiru Adeyemi, another winner from the N1 million naira category, who emerged in the May draw at Akure. The pensioner disclosed that his business was on the verge of collapse just before he participated in the promo.

“I was getting ready to close my business and look for a small job somewhere, just to keep my family fed and clothed. Despite all the challenges we were facing, my spouse insisted that our little savings in Skye Bank should remain untouched and that was how we qualified for the 1 million naira draw.  I put the money back into the business straight away and now, with advice from Skye Bank, we thank God that we are doing well again,” he said.

Speaking on the initiative, the Head, Retail Banking at Skye Bank Plc, Nkolika Okoli disclosed that the scheme was established to increase the flow of funds to support SMEs, accelerate employment generation and development of indigenous entrepreneurship as well as encourage saving culture among Nigerians.

Okoli also announced the commencement of the second edition of the promo in July 2016, encouraging new customers to open a Skye Save Plus account with N2, 000 to qualify for the campaign while existing customers need to fund their accounts with a minimum of N2, 000 on a monthly basis.

According to Okoli, “That we are awarding the 36th millionaire is a significant way of celebrating the transition of the second edition of the initiative. We intend to touch the lives of many more customers, so we encourage both existing and prospective customers to join in the next edition of “Reach for the Skye” millionaire reward scheme.”

Skye Bank’s Reach for the Skye’ millionaire reward scheme was launched 12 months ago in Kaduna where the first draw took place and the activation has taken place in several states, including, Calabar, Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Sokoto, Enugu, Aba, Onitsha, Abuja and Ondo states.