Dar es Salaam Couple Wins Raffle to Watch United Vs Arsenal

A COUPLE residing in Mbezi Beach area in Dar es Salaam saw their dream of watching a live Barclays Premier League game live come true, after one of the spouses won an all expenses paid trip during the second grand draw of the Tigo smartcard competition.

The lady identified only as Harriet is a 31-year-old employed as a project coordinator and was ecstatic on receiving the phone call, saying that she would pick her husband to accompany her for the trip to the UK to watch the Manchester United against Arsenal game scheduled for April 28, this year.

"This is too good to be true, I am beyond words on how I feel right now but am grateful to Tigo for giving me this opportunity. My husband is a huge football fan and nothing would be better than going with him," she said.

Tigo's brand manager, William Mpinga said that the company was pleased to once again send another Smartcard grand draw winner abroad to witness a highly anticipated match between two English Premier League giants United and Arsenal next month.

"We are delighted to fulfil our "smile you're with Tigo" promise by ensuring that our valuable customers continue to smile as they keep using Tigo," he said. Tigo Offer Design Manager, David Sekwao said that Harriet will be getting an all-expenses paid trip package for two with the option of bringing a friend along with them, to watch a live match.

He said that to win this promotion one needed to be a Tigo customer and a smartphone user of Blackberry, Android or Iphones. "In addition to the grand draw prize, there are also other 42 lucky winners who have won themselves different giveaway prizes including 12 movie tickets, 12 club tickets, 12 tickets to watch football at a local pub, three shopping vouchers as well as three dinner passes," he explained.

To participate in this promotion, customers were required to subscribe to a smartcard monthly package costing 30,000 worth of airtime for a minimum of three months and have joined Tigo's smartcard community through their website.

Also, the IMF has vigorous reform in mind to tackle problems such as energy subsidies, which are draining huge sums from the state budget. Egypt needs bold and ambitious policy actions to address its economic and financial challenges without further delay, spokeswoman Wafr Amr said last week. Such policy actions, most likely tax rises and subsidy cuts that will send fuel costs soaring, would not go down well at any time with a population suffering from a steady economic slide since the 2011 revolution, let alone before an election.

The IMF will want to see measures to rein in the budget deficit in order to agree to a package which the government may be loath to implement prior to elections. An imminent agreement seems unlikely, said Giyas Gokkent, Chief Economist at National Bank of Abu Dhabi. Cairo already had to request a delay in the IMF loan in December during serious street violence, and trouble has regularly erupted since then over a variety of grievances.

Egypts needs are pressing. In its plan drawn up for the IMF, the government forecast the budget deficit would hit 12.3 percent of the countrys entire annual economic output in the year to June unless it made urgent reforms.Our RFID solutions support a broad range of indoortracking and labels. Far wealthier and more stable Portugal, which restored democracy almost 40 years ago, had to take a bailout from the IMF and European Union in 2011 after running a deficit that peaked below 10 percent of gross domestic product.

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On the streets, motorists queue for scarce supplies of diesel and other cheaper fuel, and anger is growing over inflation, which leapt to an annual 8.2 percent in February from 6.3 percent the previous month, eating into the living standards of people struggling to make ends meet.Manufacturer of the Jacobs smartcard. This is creating a sense of helplessness among ordinary Egyptians about the reforms likely to come with an IMF loan.Can you spot the answer in the bobbleheads?

Shabaan, who makes a living chauffeuring visitors and expatriates around Cairo, has much to lose.The stonemosaic is our flagship product. According to the projections, the most commonly used 90 octane gasoline would leap to 5.71 Egyptian pounds ($ 0.85) a litre from 1.75 if subsidies go, while diesel would go up to 5.21 pounds from 1.10. The government has promised limited amounts of subsidized fuel would remain available to some drivers under a smart card system due to start in July, but Shabaans larger engined car would be excluded from the scheme.