27-year old wins N1m in MultiChoice competition

TWENTY Seven-year old Kanso  Ogbolu, has emerged the winner of the Special Logo Design Competition in commemoration of the 2oth anniversary of MultiChoice Nigeria.


At the event  which was held  yesterday in Lagos, the Pay TV giant also  unveiled a new logo.

Those  in attendance include; Chairman Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs,  Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, Managing Director of  First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Mr. Ladi Balogun, Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, among others.

Ogbolu, who won the sum of one million naira with one year free DStv subscription, emerged winner in the   competition which was   open to creative people with innovative artistic designs, who were ready  to pit such against similarly creative ones.

The first runner-up, Mr. Gabriel Efe won the sum of five hundred thousand naira and six months free DStv subscription , just as Oguntobi Ayoola went home with two hundred and fifty naira, a DSTV decoder and three months free DStv subscription   as the second runner-up.While expressing appreciation to the company, a delighted Ogbolu described the award as a reward for creativity.

He further commended MultiChoice for remaining the leading Pay TV giant in Nigeria, just as he encouraged youths to be creative.

Earlier,  Ugbe stated that in the last twenty years, the company had not relented in its efforts at exporting the country’s innovation globally.

‘’When we introduced mobile digital TV in Nigeria, It was the first in Africa. Our story has not just been bringing international content to Nigeria, rather we have  also been taking Nigeria’s innovation the rest of the world. That is our story in the last twenty years. This event is just to unveil the 20 the anniversary logo and honour all those, who have been part of our success story,’’ he noted.

In addition, the MutiChoice boss, said, ‘’when we wanted to put up a logo, the normal thing was to invite our agencies  and brief them to bring us a logo. But because we see innovation locally and also the strength of the Nigerian, we had to put up the competition. We were overwhelmed by the seventeen thousand entries we received.’’