{"id":65962,"date":"2018-05-29T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65962"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:27:58","slug":"nkhata-bay-man-wins-k1-million-in-mpamba-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/29\/nkhata-bay-man-wins-k1-million-in-mpamba-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkhata Bay man wins K1 million in Mpamba promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Stock Exchange-listed integrated mobile network operator, TNM, on Thursday concluded its Osaphweketsa Mpamba promotion which saw Nkhata Bay-based businessman, Backford Lwazi, winning the grand prize of K1million.<\/p>\n<p>Lwazi, a Mpamba agent, could not hide his excitement in an interview after the draw. He could, however, not indicate what he would do with the windfall.<\/p>\n<p>The final draw of the promotion,conducted in Blantyre, also saw two other customers winning K500,000 each while another three pocketed K300,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>TNM Head of Division \u2013 Mobile Money\u2014 Chikhulupiliro Mphatso, said the promotion had a positive impact on the firm\u2019s business growth.<\/p>\n<p>He said the promotion received an overwhelming response from customers as evidenced by a significant rise in Mpamba-related transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are satisfied with impact of the promotion on both the subscriber base and transacted volumes,\u201d Mphatso said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the promotion also lived up to its objective of rewarding customers for their contribution to the growth of mobile money and financial inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mphatso, this signifies the essential role that Mpamba plays in digital financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Each fortnight, five other customers were walking away with K100, 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Stock Exchange-listed integrated mobile network operator, TNM, on Thursday concluded its Osaphweketsa Mpamba promotion which saw Nkhata Bay-based businessman, Backford Lwazi, winning the grand prize of K1million. Lwazi, a Mpamba agent, could not hide his excitement in an interview after the draw. He could, however, not indicate what he would do with the windfall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65967,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65962\/revisions\/65967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}