Benin City, 54 Other Towns Set for Glo Mega Shows

By Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

In a move to boost its customer base in Nigeria, especially among the youths, telecoms giant, Globacom, has concluded plans to host 54 mega music and comedy shows across Nigeria.

This came to light during an informal media luncheon hosted by Globacom’s National Sales Coordinator, Mid-West Territory, Mr. Augustus-ndi Offor, in Benin City, Edo State capital at the weekend.

Offor explained to the media practitioners at the informal gathering that the shows, which would run for six months, would feature A-List music and comedy artistes.

Among the first-rated artistes  who will perform at the Glo Mega Music Nationwide Tour are Olamide, Flavour, Runtown, Omawumi, Yemi Alade, PSquare, Phyno, Timaya, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello, Di’Ja and  Kiss Daniel while comedians as Gordons, Basketmouth, Bovi, Salvador from Uganda, I Go Dye, Dan D Humorous, Bash, Seyi Law, Omobaba, Acapella, Senator, Helen Paul, Osama, Princewill, Mr. Patrick, Frank D Don, MC Tagwaye, Kenny Blaq, Funky Mallam, Arinze Baba, 2CanTalk, Maleke, Still Ringing and AB Simple will feature at the comedy shows.

He further disclosed that the  Glo Mega Music Nationwide Tour would commence in Benin on April 7 at the Best Western Hotel, Etete, GRA, Benin City and Glo Laffta Fest comedy shows will commence on April 9 at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos and then move to 26 other cities.

Globacom further explained that the two shows would run concurrently mainly on Saturdays and Sundays, with the Glo Mega Music Concert holding on Saturdays, and  Glo Laffta Fest show  on Sundays.

The shows would also  hold in Ikeja, Ikorodu, FESTAC and Ajah all in Lagos; Awka; Owerri; Asaba; Calabar; Enugu; Aba; Port Harcourt; Suleja, Kubwa and FCT, all in Abuja; Ibadan; Ijebu Ode; Abeokuta; Ekpoma; Kaduna; Akure; Lokoja; and Ayingba.

According to him, “We are running the spectacular shows as a way of saying thank you to our teeming subscribers across the country for their loyalty, support and abiding faith in the Glo brand over the years.”

Globacom had earlier in a statement issued in Lagos, explained that the trio of Juliet Ibrahim, Joselyn Dumas and Mercy Johnson would anchor the shows, while Nollywood stars like  Kanayo O. Kanayo, Richard Mofe-Damijo (RMD), Ebube Nwagbo, Funke Akindele, Odunlade Adekola, Sani Danja would add pep to the shows.

“The shows are specially designed to celebrate and reward our teeming subscribers and to demonstrate to them that we will spare no efforts at delighting them at all times as they are the reason why we are in business. The icing on the cake is that all these array of mega stars will be entertaining our esteemed subscribers  in all the locations free of charge,” the telecommunications giant added.

Subscribers who desire to be invited for the Glo Mega Music Tour are required to use N3,000 one month preceding each show and text “Music” and their preferred location to 207.

A subscriber who wishes to attend the Ibadan  event for example, should text  “Music Ibadan” to 207.  Subscribers wishing to attend the Glo Laffta Fest shows  are also encouraged to use N3,000 before the show and send “LOL” to a short code, 240.  For example, any subscriber who desires  to attend the Ijebu Ode show should text “LOL Ijebu Ode” to 240.

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