A Youth Corper Wins Mtn’s N50 Million House

A corps member has won a house worth N50
million after playing the weekly TV game
show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
sponsored by telecoms company, MTN.
Special episodes of the TV game show
tagged “Who Deserves To Be Surprised”,

were aired on TV stations all over the
country on the 21 and 28 December 2014.
MTN, in conjunction with Ultima Limited, had
called on Nigerians to nominate whoever
they feel deserves to be surprised during this
yuletide. Such a person, they said, must
have influenced or touched their lives in a
positive manner.
According to the organizers, many
nominations were received in this regard and
it took a painstaking process to select the
eight nominees with the most compelling
stories, to come and have a chance of
making it to the hot seat, not only to play
for the regular star prize of N10million, but to
also have a surprise chance of winning a
house worth N50millon.
Of the eight nominees who were invited for
the show, Omotola Akinsola, a Youth Corp
member, and Iyabode Olasumbo Sodiya-
Dawodu were the lucky two, who made it to
the hot seat.
Ms Akinsola made it to the hot seat in the
first episode and won a sum of N250, 000,
while Mrs. Sodiya-Dawodu tried her luck
during the second episode and also won a
sum of N250, 000.
With both contestants at par, show host,
Frank Edoho, ushered viewers into another
anxious moment, as both Omotola and
Iyabode were made to play the fastest finger
game, so as to determine who wins the star
prize of a N50m house.
Omotola was the fastest of the duo, to
answer the N50m question.
She expressed her happiness and thanked
MTN for surprising her in such a wonderful
way.
“This surprise largesse is an encouragement
for me to do more and to follow my passion
to a point that will influence the youth, even
at a global level,” Omotola said.
MTN also gave another package for the
runner-up, Mrs. Sodiya-Dawodu, as show
host, Frank Edoho, announced a new KIA car
to be presented to her.
While expressing her joy at winning the car
gift, an obviously elated Iyabode said it all
came as a surprise to her, as she never
envisaged it.
The star prize winner, Omotola Akinsola, is a
Director at Jumpstart Academy, a Non-
Governmental Organisation that supports and
currently sponsors more than two hundred
and fifty public secondary school students.
According to her, she recruits mentors from
various universities within the country, to
help in achieving her aim of motivating the
youth in the society.

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