Dangote Cement announces 204 millionaires

The ongoing Dangote Cement Bag of Goodies Promo season 2 promotion has so far produced a total of 204 millionaires, across the country.

The promo which kicked off in July is expected to produce 1,000 millionaires, as around 800 more consumers are expected to win the star prize of N1, 000,000 each before the promo ends in November.

The increase in the number of millionaires came as new winners were given their star prizes last week.

This positive trend is aside the thousands of other mouth-watering prizes won so far by Nigerians, some of which include television sets, refrigerators, smaller cash prizes, Dangote Food Goodies packs and recharge cards, among others.

According to a national breakdown of the star prize winners, the South West (SW) region has the current highest figure of 52 millionaires; Lagos (LO) as a stand-alone region has the next highest figure of 51 lucky millionaire consumers; the North Central (NC) region has 38-star prize winners; while the South-South (SS) region so far has 26 millionaires from the ongoing Dangote Cement consumer promo.

Likewise, the South East (SE) region has 18-star prize winners; the North West (NW) has produced 13 millionaires, while the North East (NE) the region has 6 millionaire star prize winners so far. Those three consumers who have won the star prize more than once are from the Lagos, North Central and South-South regions. Those who have emerged star prize winners and instant millionaires have been urging other Nigerians to join the promo and simply buy Dangote Cement products to win the star prize and any of the listed prizes.

Speaking while presenting the dummy cheques to winners in Port Harcourt, Regional Director, South-South Dangote Cement, Mr George Okoro, noted that the promo is to reward Nigerians for their continued patronage of the Dangote Cement brand over the years. According to him, Dangote Cement remains committed to uplifting and raising living standards of Nigerians as well as their financial stability.

Commenting, the cement manufacturing company’s Director of Marketing, Mrs Funmi Sanni, explained that the promotion was to encourage the customers to continue patronizing the cement product, which according to her, is the best in the country.

She said Dangote Cement values the consumers who are the end-users of cement products.

“The importance we attach to consumers informed the concept of Bag of Goodies Promo Season 2. The promo is to appreciate you, the consumers. After the Bag of Goodies Promo Season 1, we decided to have Season 2 to continue to reward you, our consumers. As an organization focused on improving the living standards of the consumers of our products, Dangote Cement has come out with the promo to ameliorate the impact of COVID-19,” she added.

Chief Commercial Officer, Dangote Group, Mr Rabiu Umar in his remarks said following the negative impact of COVID-19 on the economy, Dangote Cement decided to award a total of N1 billion to 1,000 winners across the country. According to him, Dangote Cement Company deemed it fit to continue with the second phase of the promo, tagged Bag of Goodies 2 to give back to the society to cushion the effects of the pandemic.