Six more winners at the weekend emerged in the Guaranty Trust Bank Plc GTCrea8 e-Savers Promo for undergraduates.

The winners emerged from six regions of Lagos, Abuja, South-East, South-West, Port Harcourt and Northern region, at a draw held at the bank’s head office in Lagos.The winners were individually rewarded with items included a bedside fridge, an iPod touch, a galaxy Samsung tab 2, Samsung notebook, blackberry curve phone and a LED television.

Speaking on the reason for the promo, an official from the bank’s Communications and External Affairs Department, Oyinade Adegite, noted that the promo was designed to encourage students to save. According to her, all that is required to participate and benefit from the promo is for students in tertiary institutions to open a GTCrea8 e-savers account.

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“In addition, they are required to conduct a minimum of three transactions per month on alternate banking channels such as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Point of Sale (PoS) and internet banking to qualify for the monthly draws and maintain a minimum account balance of N5,000 for six consecutive months to qualify for the grand finale,” she explained.

According to Adegite, Items to be won at the monthly zonal draws include Blackberry phones, iPods, Laptops, Samsung Galaxy Tab, LED TV and bedside fridges. The Bank is also organizing several ongoing events on campuses across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria where students will have the opportunity of instantly winning Nokia phones over a six month period while the star prize of a brand new mini cooper convertible car will be won by one of the e-savers at the grand finale of the raffle draw in September 2013”, she added.

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