Tuesday 9th August 2005
For the first time, the
Lagos Lottery has produced two jackpot winners in one week!
Muiz Abayomi Ayoola, 21, a student from Ketu, emerged as the first winner to share in last week’s jackpot prize of N2.5 million, walking away with a cool
N1.25 million.
Muiz has recently completed a course at a local computer school and is waiting for entrance into university where he plans to study accounting and dreams to become a chartered accountant one day. He comes from a family of seven children and is
currently unemployed and is supported by his mother who is a local trader.
Interestingly, it turns out that in order to stand a better chance of winning, Muiz clubbed together with two friends who each put in N100 so they could buy two N150 tickets between them. His lucky friends who get to share the N1.25 million with Muiz are
Afeez Ameen, 22, who is studying mass communication at OOU and
Muyiwa Ogunkelu, 24, who is also waiting for admission into university.
According to Muiz, this was his
first time of playing the Lagos Lottery and he did so on his brother’s recommendation. His brother had formerly played getting four (4) numbers in the first draw.
Muiz and his friends purchased their winning ticket from
Jeremob Ventures Business Centre in Ketu on Wednesday last week, choosing the numbers randomly amongst themselves while also taking his brother’s advice on two numbers. While another syndicate member watched the draw on Saturday night, Muiz had the ticket so his friend was not certain if they were winners. He immediately rushed over to meet Muiz with the draw results and there was much jubilation when they realised they were winners!
Muiz said he
couldn’t sleep the whole of Saturday night, dreaming of what he would do with his winnings. The three syndicate members will
split their winnings between them evenly and Muiz says he will give some of his portion to his mother and save the rest for his education.
Muiz and his two friends came into Orion Technologies’ head office on Monday morning to claim their prize. As per Orion’s LOTTO game rules of paying a single ticket holder, Muiz was
paid the full N1.25 million as syndicates must choose a syndicate manager to represent them and the prize is paid out to that representative. It is the responsibility of syndicates to arrange payments between their members.
Amazingly, Muiz and his friends were not the only jackpot winners last week! There is
still a lucky ticket holder out there who has also won N1.25 million, according to General Manger: Business Development of Orion Technologies, Dominic Dempers.
Dempers urged all players from last week to check their tickets against the
winning numbers of 1, 17, 20, 25, 28 and 36 to make sure that they don’t miss out on this lucrative prize.
For the next draw, a special "
One Month Anniversary Draw" promotion is on whereby N5000 is a guaranteed payout for Division Four (match four numbers) and N750 is a guaranteed payout for Division Five (match three numbers),
"We are committed to producing more winners and more millionaires among Lagosians every week. All you have to do is
buy your Lagos Lottery tickets from our authorised dealers at any
Oando filling station, all
Oceanic bank branches in Lagos,
independent retailers and our
vendors on the street dressed in magenta coloured dungarees, pick your six numbers and watch for the results on our game show.
The Lagos Lottery TV Game Show is on at
8:30pm every Saturday, on Silverbird TV and you might just be the next winner".
Look at The Smiling Faces of the Winnind Friends! (Press Release)
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