Ikotun plays host to the Skye Bank "Reach for the Skye" Promo Draw

By Oluwafisayo Ige

Lagos, Nigeria 14 April 2016 – Skye Bank is continuing in its bid to turn more lives around, as well as influence their savings culture. Through its Reach for the Skye Reward Scheme promo. Today, the bank took the successful promo scheme to the popular Tama Spot Ikotun Main Market in Lagos.

According to Skye Bank, the scheme has been put in place to build a long-lasting relationship with its customers, encouraging them to save, and rewarding them for their commitment through the ‘Reach for the Skye Millionaire’ Reward Scheme.

The Skye Reward Scheme which is in its tenth month has consistently increased awareness of savings culture, while acting as a platform for some Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) owners to expand their businesses. The last edition of the draw brings the numbers of millionaires to 30 in the ongoing promo, with winners emerging from different parts of Nigeria.

Speaking on the scheme; Group Head, Retail Banking, Skye Bank Plc, Nkolika Okoli said the Reach for the Skye Millionaire Scheme is part of the Bank’s strategy to encourage customers to cultivate the art of saving and also give back to the society for their loyalty to the bank.

Explaining the bank's commitment to bringing more people into the banking system, Okoli stated, “As a Retail focused ye Bank, Skye Bank is interested in impacting every neighborhood where it does business and seeing our customers get a turnaround both as individuals and as businesses, this is why we are using this platform to encourage our customers to imbibe a savings culture as well as achieve their financial goals. To put it simply, we are rewarding customers for saving their money with us and hopefully building a long term trusting relationship.”

The last event which held in Ikotun, saw Job Abiona Fatunbi from Ogudu Branch of the bank emerged as a winner in the 1 million naira category. Speaking on his winning, he expressed, “I have been following this draw religiously, adding multiples of two thousand naira monthly, assuming I didn’t win, I would have thought it was fraud, so I must commend the bank on such initiative, it is really a fantastic one, and I am very happy to be a winner.”

Skye Banks ‘ Reach for the Skye Millionaire’ reward scheme will see Skye Bank give away the sum of 60 million naira during the course of 1 year to customers who operate the Skye Save Plus and Skye Ease accounts and maintain minimum credit balances of N2,000 on an incremental basis. The reward is still on going with several millions up for grabs.