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A total of 466 consolation
prizes have been won at this week NATIONAL JACKPOT GAMESHOW Live of Give’n’Take Lottery, although no Jackpot
winner emerged, with the Jackpot number of 02-06-28-30-36 and Kogi as the Power
Ball state.
It is expected that the
National Jackpot prize for Sunday July 16th will be announced on Tuesday, 11th
July 2017, after computation of the rollover amount.
On the M-lottery platform,
a total of 304 players won various consolation prizes through our various
agents nationwide, while 162 persons who played via our mobile app/web
platform, won consolation prizes making it a total of 466 persons who won
various sums in July 9th National Jackpot Game Show.
Commenting on the
credibility and transparency of the National Jackpot, the Assistant Director,
Regulation and Monitoring, National Lottery Regulatory Commission Mr Yagba Tsav
said that playing the lottery was panacea to national development.
He made this known at the
third edition of the lottery draw organized by Give n Take National Lottery
Company held in Abuja on Monday.
According to him, when you
lottery, what you are doing is that you are contributing to national
development.
`` In the United Kingdom,
75 percent of the population play lottery for the reason that they are
contributing something to their national development.
``Let Nigerians take a cue
from this and harness the benefits that are accruable,” Tsav said.
He noted that 20 percent
of lottery proceeds went to the government trust fund for development of
infrastructure.
While encouraging
Nigerians to participate in the game, Tsav said when anyone played the lottery,
he stood the chance to win.
``You either win the National jackpot or you
win the consolation prices, so we are distributing wealth to ordinary
Nigerians.
``The people who play
lottery are essentially ordinary people; we want to distribute wealth to them,”
he said.
According to him, the game
of lottery has arrived Nigeria saying that what `Give n Take` jackpot is giving
to Nigerians was another level of acquiring wealth.
``With Give n Take, we are
going to see bigger things.
``The National Lottery
Regulatory Commission is behind this company, we are doing our regulatory
assignment. We are making sure that everything is going on well and Nigerians
will enjoy this game,” he said.
Also speaking, one of the
company’s ambassadors who is also a Nollywood actress, Linda Osifo encouraged
Nigerians to keep playing the game noting that the number of times one could
play was unlimited.
Present at the event was
another Nollywood actor, Mr Nobert Young who noted that ``lottery served as a
great opportunity to make some good money for investment which was a form of
empowerment.”
``You must just keep
trying to win big,” he said.
On his part, the Nigerian
rapper, Jude Abaga popularly known as `M.I` who thrilled the audience with his
song said ``his mind was blown away” by the entire production.
`` The audience is life,
what really blew me away was the production. The team is amazing. This is
really a great job. It is a good thing that is inspiring young Nigerians.
``It is entertaining but
more to that, it is a world class organisation running a programme and I am
very proud to be here.
``It is an opportunity
that could change anyone’s life at any point in life. The lottery commission is
here to show that it is legitimate. It is open to anybody and anybody can win
anytime. It is a great opportunity,” he said.
The National Jackpot prize
for the coming Sunday will be announced tomorrow after computation of the roll
over, but bear in mind that it is going to be above Last Sunday National
Jackpot Prize of 19.1 Million.
Players are urged to play
and win the National Jackpot through any of our channels, i.e. via our agents
or via our mobile app/website at www.gntbig.com
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