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U.S based Nigerian lady wins N210M lottery after getting ticket from brother as birthday gift

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U.S based Nigerian lady, Elizabeth Tutu Coker-Nnam celebrates joyfully after winning the sum of N210M jackpot from a lottery.

The young lady got the ticket from her brother as a belated birthday gift after marking her birth anniversary on March 2.

Coker-Nnam of Upper Marlboro, Maryland noted that she completely forgot about the ticket until she was on phone with her brother and decided to open it. To her surprises, the ticket had the grand prize of $500,000.

Elizabeth Tutu Coker-Nnam“I screamed! He screamed! We both screamed!” Coker-Nnam said, according to UPI.

The winner’s brother, who purchased the ticket at the B.O.B. at the Pentagon in Arlington, accompanied Coker-Nnam to collect her prize.

“If I’d known it was that, I’d have kept it,” he said.