The Nigeria Football Federation has lauded the broadcast rights agreements reached by the League Management Company (LMC) with Sports Radio Brila FM and Megalectrics Limited, owners of Beat FM, Classic FM and Naija FM radio stations. While Sports Radio Brila 88.9 operates in Lagos, Abuja, Onitsha and Kaduna, and is also a partner of the […]
…Stations now to broadcast live matches Sports Radio Brila FM and Megalectrics Limited became the first radio stations to be issued Radio broadcast rights of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) following the signing of separate Memorandum of Understanding between the stations and the League Management Company (LMC). Megalectrics Limited based in Lagos is the […]
via Brila, Beat FM Land NPFL Radio Broadcast Rights… — newfanzoneblog
The National qualifiers for the Football Fives World Championship(F5WC) kicks off this weekend In Kaduna at the Hockey Pitch, Murtala Square, Kaduna. Matches will kick off at 10:00am prompt with over 100 registered teams set to battle it out for the two slots allocated to the Kaduna Centre of the National Qualifiers for the 2016 Football Fives World Championship.
This Tournament which is endorsed by the Nigeria Football Tournament Is Proudly Sponsored by Olympic Milk and it promises to be the biggest ever Five-A-Side Tournament ever witnessed In Nigeria.
Olympic Milk will Be taking One Lucky Fan to The Etihad Stadium In Manchester to watch Barclays Premier League Table Toppers Manchester City play an home game before the end of the 2015-2016 season, and this is just One of the Mouth watering packages to be unveiled by the sponsors and the organisers of the F5WC Qualifiers in Nigeria.
Qualifiers Will be held in six different Cities across Nigeria kicking off in Kaduna this Saturday the 21st-22nd of November, Next Stop will be Popular Sunny Abacha Stadium In Kano on the 25th-26th of November.
The Olympic Milk Powered Tournament Will Continue at the Astro-Turf, Maitama Gardens, Abuja from the 28th-29th of November then berth at the Rivers State University Sports Centre in the beautiful city of Port Harcourt on the 5th and 6th of December.
Abeokuta will get a chance to host the National Qualifiers on the 11th and 12th of December at the Popular MKO Abiola Stadium before the Final National Qualifiers moves to the Sport City in Lagos, were the Largest number of registered teams will converge at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on the weekend of the 18th and 19th of December 2015.
Chairman Of the LOC Fred Agbi While Speaking to the media yesterday in Lagos, promised to bring to Nigerians a well packaged National Qualifiers but better still a glamorous and fun-filled Grand Finale In Lagos.
Agbi while Thanking the Sponsors Olympic Milk Also Used the opportunity to thank other partners, like The Nigeria Football Federation, and all the partner state FA’s like Lagos FA, Ogun FA, Kano FA, Kaduna FA, And The Rivers FA. The F5WC Nigeria Qualifiers is also proudly Supported by Brila Fm, Complete Sports And Sports Day Newspapers.
C.E.O Of 5Sports Limited organiser of the F5WC In Nigeria Mr Adebayo Akande also mentioned that the eventual winners of the tournament will get a whooping 1.5 million Naira, a giant trophy, Olympic milk products and branded items and an all expenses paid trip to represent Nigeria at the Football Fives World Championship(F5WC) Holding in Bangkok, Thailand.
Akande also mentioned that the Grand Finale tagged #RoadToThailand Will be between the 2 top teams from the various national qualifying centres mentioned Earlier with Lagos Providing 6 teams due to the high number of registered teams, all these also teams battle it out at the Campos Mini Stadium on Lagos Island on January the 15th and 16th.
The winner at the National finals in Lagos will represent Nigeria at F5WC World finals in Bangkok, Thailand from 2nd-6th March 2016.
…As organizers unveil nominees for the Journalists categories.
As the countdown for the 2015 edition of the Nigerian Sports Award continues, the organizers have announced that the voting phase will close as scheduled by midnight of Sunday November 15, 2013.
According to the spokesman for the award and the Executive Director, Unmissable Incentives Limited, Mr. Kayode Idowu, the voting phase, which started on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 is expected to close as stipulated in the timelines of the 2015 award.
Idowu urged sports loving Nigerians who still wish to vote for their Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year to take the opportunity of the remaining few days to do so before the deadline.
He noted that interested members of the public should send SMS SMOTY for Sportsman of the Year or SWOTY for Sportswoman of the Year and the name of the athlete to 33140 or nominate through twitter using the hashtag #SWOTY or #SMOTY and the name of choice winner to @ngrsportsaward.
In the meantime, the panel of the Nigerian Sport Award has released the list of shortlisted nominees for the media categories of 2015 Nigerian Sport Award.
For the Sport Journalist of the Year (Print) category, Oludare Shina of Goal.com, Tana Aiyejina of The Punch Newspaper, Johnny Edwards Complete Sports and Kayode Ogundare i-Soccer while Ganiyu Yusuf of the Complete Sport, Bola Omilabu of the Nation and SportingLife Newspaper battles John Ebota of The Nation, Segun Ogunfeyintimi and Akeem Salawu of The Vanguard Newspaper for the Photo Journalist of the year.
The Radio Sport Journalist of the Year, last year’s winner Godwin Enakhena, Top Radio was shortlisted alongside with Murphy Djemba of Brila FM, Chinasa Ibonye, City FM and Udeme George, Love FM,Abuja.
The nominees of 2015 Nigeria Sport Award include Miyen Akiri of Galaxy TV, Mosez Praiz of Supersports and Austin Okon-Akpan of Channels TV.
The 2015 Nigerian Sports Award event is schedule to hold on Friday, November 20, 2015 at the Marquee, Oceanview, Eko Hotel Lagos.
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