Mr. Folarin Ogunbanjo, chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Praise up! Chop up talent hunt competition annually organized by Appealing Grace Assembly Int’l, Ayobo, Lagos has expressed satisfaction at both the standard and the performances of the competitors of 2023 edition of the contest recently held in the church.
Mr. Ogunbanjo demonstrated his satisfaction by doubling the cash prizes of the first winner, the first runner up and the second runner up in this year’s contest.
Pastor Akinola Akinwale in handshake with Mr. Folarin Ogunbanjo, Trustee APGA and Donor to Praise UP ! Chop Up!
With the BoT chair’s doubled amounts gesture the three winners in the 2023 Praise up! Chop! have been presented additional 100% cash prize to the N150,000 (the first winner), N70,000 (the first runner up) and N20,000 (the second runner up) they earlier received respectively from the organizers at the close of the event.
This development now saw the three winners smiled to their respective bank with the following total amounts of cash prizes respectively.
(L-R)Precious Okonkwo, Winner 2023 Praise Up! Chop!, Judge Clem, Pastor Akinola and Trustee Folarin
FIRST WINNER
Precious Okonkwo N300,000
FIRST RUNNER UP
Lucky Paul N140,000
SECOND RUNNER UP N40,000
Pastor Akinola Akinwale, the church’s senior pastor disclosed to Christian Benefits the BoT chair, Ogunbanjos’s doubling of the cash prizes for the winners of the 2023 Praise up! Chop! Talent hunts competition.
“Our Board of Trustees (BoT)chairman, Mr. Folarin Ogunbanjo, who chaired the prize award day, doubled the prizes. Thus, the official prize tag of N150,000 to N300,000, N70,000 to N140,000 and N20,000 to N40,000. The winners smiled to their respective bank accounts. Mr. Ogunbanjo also promised to continue to support the project annually being the first of its kind since inception,” Pastor Akinwale disclosed
