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Lagos Television Wins SWAN VITA GLUCOSE-D TUG OF WAR TOURNEY

Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2014
Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2014
Lagos Television has emerged as winner of the maiden edition of the SWAN Vita Glucose D Tug of War tournament.

Team LTV defeated hard fighting Team Super Sports in the final by 2-0 to cart home the overall trophy and a cash prize of N30,000.

Team Super Sports for coming second went home with a trophy and cash prize of N20,000.

Earlier before the final, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had defeated Newfanzone.com 2-1 to win the third place match.

Team NAN went home with a trophy and N10,000 while Team Newfanzone.com won the Best Behaved Team Award and a cash prize of N5,000.

A total of 12 teams participated in the tournament which started on Thursday and ended on Friday with the final ceremony.

CEO of Vital Health Limited, Mohammed Ashrat while commending the participating teams, said “this is the beginning of a lasting relationship with SWAN”.

We are going to improve on this and come out better and stronger by the next edition”, he said.

Chairman of Lagos SWAN, Fred Edoreh thanked the sponsors and members of SWAN for the success of the tournament.

“We thank our sponsors for this successful event and it is our hope and prayer that next edition will be bigger and better”, he said.

The event was packaged by O & I Contact Limited, the marketing company under the leadership of Mr. Isaac O. Isaac.

SWAN Tug Of War

Sports Writers Engage In Vita Glucose D Sponsored Tug-Of-War Competition

Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2: Team Newfanzone.com
Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2: Team Newfanzone.com

Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (Lagos Chapter) dropped their pen to participate in the 2014 Vita Glucose D Tug-Of-War competition at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

Members of SWAN from News Agency of Nigeria, New Fan Zone, Mirror and Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) all flexed their muscles in the two days tournament.

News Agency of Nigeria who presented two teams ( Team 1&2) topped the table after day one with 6 points, the New Fan Zone inspired by their team captain, Sola Rogers are joint leaders with 6 points also, while team Mirror and the NAN team 2 are tied on 3 points. Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) are rock bottom after day 1 one with no points.

Lagos SWAN chairman, Fred Edoreh who was part of Team Mirror stated that the partnership between SWAN and Vita Health Limited, makers of Vita Glucose D has just started and the Tug-Of-War competition is just one out of the series of events Vita Glucose D will sponsor.

“This is a new partnership and the Tug-Of-War competition is one out of the many more events expected to come out of the partnership between Vita Health Ltd and the Sports Writers Association Of Nigeria (SWAN) Lagos chapter,” Edoreh confirmed.

Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2014
Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2014

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