Nigeria Rugby Football Federation Release 2016 Rugby Calendar

The Nigeria Rugby Football Federation has made public her 2016 calendar of activities on 5th of February, and Some of the programs are listed below:

LEAGUES
The Regional leagues which consists of the North Central, North West, South South/East and the South West league will kick off in March and April respectively.

The Super Cup determines who the National Champions are. And it will be held in November

AFRICA CUP
The African Cup 1C is the pre-qualifier for The 2019 Rugby World cup. This year’s tournament will be staged in Casablanca, Morocco in June. Participating teams in the qualifier includes Mauritius, Morocco, Cameroon and Nigeria.

The African Cup 7s will feature 12 African countries, such as Kenya, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mauritius, Uganda, Zambia, Botswana, Madagascar, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and Nigeria, the tournament will be held in September in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Nigeria Sevens season will open from July till November. several sevens tournament will be held across the country in this period. The tournaments include: Liliker 7s Zaria, Independence 7s Lagos, Plateau Invitational 7s, President Cup Lagos and the proposed Niger Delta 7’and Eastern 7s.

Nigeria Rugby 7s Team

OTHERS

Other events reflected in the calendar include Coaching and referee courses schedule to hold in the second quarter of the year. The GIR developmental program will run through the year and lastly, the schools and female rugby festival with dates yet to be determined.

Speaking with the Technical Director of the federation Fasimoye Olatunji, He said the year is going to be a very busy one for the federation and its athletes, ‘ As you can see from the list of programs, it is going to be our busiest year thus far and it will also impact greatly on the development of the Rugby in Nigeria. we believe we can do more if giving adequate support from private organizations but we will like to thank Mr Kelechukwu Mbagu the Chairman of Friends of Rugby who has been using his company CMB Building Maintenance and Investment Company Limited to support all the activities of the federation’.