New Year Mega Lottery Boosts Nigeria’s Nationwide League
The chief executive officer, CEO New Year Mega Lottery, Sunday Adeleye believes that there is no negativity in lottery.
He said at the partnership launch of the New Year Mega Lottery with the Nationwide League in Abuja on Thursday was that New Year Mega Lottery wants to be part of success story of Nigeria football.
Identifying with Nationwide League is because it’s the biggest league globally and we want to be part of the success story of the Nigeria football league.
With the title New Year Mega Lottery Nationwide League, the league has huge number of youth and grassroots programme.
The grassroots needs support and that’s why we’re coming in to support the grassroots through New Year Mega Lottery and see how we can support the system and boost football in Nigeria,” Sunday Adeleye said.
According to him, “apart from supporting the league, we also create job opportunities, we have players that are jobless and can login as our agents and distributors.
“ The good thing about it is that this is not sports betting and there’s no law that prohibit players from playing lottery, and they can take it as business and as well as leisure.”
The New Year Mega Lottery chief executive also noted that giving back is part of the system and with the current situation, it’s an opportunity to remove them out of poverty.
“No negativity in lottery. Lottery is used in the UK, USA and other parts of the developed world and we can practice lottery in Nigeria to use it to develop our economy.
“ With New Year Mega Lottery, the number of agents that we have today, we’ve created over 30,000 jobs and is a good course as we’re adding and supporting the Nigeria government.
“ Either way it’s practiced, try to give back to the country and this is the best way we can contribute our quota in the development of our great country Nigeria.”
While fielding questions from the journalists, Head Corporate Communications, Ms Obiora Emmanuella, said, “in our products, players stand the chance of winning over N70 million in total winning.
“ We have different packages that students that are above the age of 18 and are in the university stand the chance to win and can take care of their house rent and bills.
“ We also have packages that people can win for monthly, packages that people can win instantly, daily and on every 1st of January every year, which is one of our biggest products known as Mega Draw.
“ So, in total, we have Mega Draw, monthly draw, instant scratch-and-win, state mega puzzle, campus fare, pocket money in total of eight products. We’re hoping and believing that all that we have put in, in the past years, Nigeria can stand a chance of becoming millionaires every day, and that’s the plan.”
Aside with the Nationwide League, which we’re investing about N964m, we also have partnership with SO Adeleye Foundation.
She added that everybody in Nigeria so long as you’re 18 and above, rich, poor, student, market women, drivers, bus conductors, it’s open to everyone.
