Nigerian Football

Video: How GTBank Lagos Principals’ Cup Produced New Champions

Published

7 years ago

June 9, 2017

Most football followers of the GTBank Principals’ Cup look forward to see Stephen Odey perform this weekend as Nigeria take on South Africa in one of the opening group stages of the qualifying series for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
Stephen Odey, a forward of Lagos MFM, has been fantastic this football season and is the lead scorer in the Nigerian league. He remains the biggest product of the GTBank Lagos Principals’ Cup which eighth edition has just been concluded.
Stephen Odey played for and captained Dairy Farm Senior Secondary School to victory in the 2012 edition. There have been other exceptional players who have emerged from the GTBank Principals Cup as new champions continue to emerge.
Such new champions are. Ijaiye Housing Estate Senior Grammar School, Ojokoro which won the male category of 2017 which is the Season 8 since GTBank took over the title sponsorship.
Isale Eko Grammar School, Lagos Island, emerged champions in the girls’ category at the final matches played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
Ayodeji Tinubu, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Sports and also the Chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission, who was at the final match of this year’s edition which also significantly served as the football event of the celebration of Lagos State at 50, remarked that the partnership with GTBank on the Principals Cup has been fantastic.
“Year in year out, the partnership continues to get stronger”, Deji Tinubu remarked. Considering that none of the four finalist schools had made it to that stage since the commencement of organized schools’ football in Lagos in 1948, Segun Agbaje, the MD/CEO of Guaranty Trust Bank plc, was thrilled as the 2017 competition opened new opportunities.
Ahead of the final matches, he stated: “We are delighted to see schools aiming for their first ever trophies in this competition;
“It emphasizes the growing stature of the GTBank-Lagos State Principals Cup as a platform for the cultivation of dreams through hard work and discipline.”
He further stated that “When these young talents go on to accomplish many great goals in their lives, they will look back on this competition as the time when they first gained the courage to dare, and built the will to win.”
Guaranty Trust Bank plc is a foremost Nigerian financial institution that has maintained a defined Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy since its inception in 1990. The Bank actively supports in-classroom and out-of-classroom educational programmes, infrastructure development, students’ scholarship and teachers training across Africa.
Agbaje also remarked that GTBank embarked on the Lagos Principals Cup project to further project sports as tool to create good habit in people. “It creates discipline so that they can achieve success in different facets of their lives”.

Nigerian Football

GTI enlarges coast…spreads from League fund-raising to Federation Cup

Published

8 hours ago

April 19, 2024

Kunle Solaja

BY KUNLE SOLAJA.

Strategic partners of the Nigeria Football Federation, GTI Asset Management and Trust Ltd has expanded their scope of operations from fund sourcing for the Nigeria Premier League to adding the responsibility of getting the national cup competition back into its glamorous days.

The MD of the company, Abubakar Lawal at the unveiling a revamped Federation Cup which has been renamed President Federation Cup remarked that his company decided to take a bold step to support the national cup.

“I am the happiest man today, he said in the opening remark of the rebranding of the national cup through signing of Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Sports and the NFF.

“Our company is also strategically involved in ensuring that the President Federation Cup is given necessary attention to thrive using The Nigeria Football Fund (TNFF) as our vehicle to actualise this dream.

“Therefore, it is our vision that the oldest domestic football event becomes one of the best organised football events in the world in no distant future.”

Nigerian Football

Ikenne’s Beyond Limit Football Academy top goal chart as NNL releases vital statistics

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2 days ago

April 18, 2024

Kunle Solaja

The secretariat of the Nigeria National League has released the match statistics of the four conferences of the 2024 season.

With 198 matches so far played in Conferences A and B, 426 goals were scored, with 125 home wins and 26 away wins, representing 63.1%, & 26% respectively. There were 47 draw matches, representing 23.7% of matches. 299 home goals were scored, and 127 home goals.

Beyond Limit FC scored the highest goals of 33 goals, with Stormers FC and Ekiti United conceeding the least goals of 28 goals. Tradesafe and Solution FC scored the least numbers of goals of 11 goals and Osun conceded the least numbers of goals of 8.

In group C & D, 209 goals have been scored in the 106 so far played, with 70 home wins and 14 won away representing 66. 3% and 13.1% respectively.

Teams drew 31 matches representing 29.2% of the matches played. Wikki Tourists scored the highest numbers of goals, with 23 goals, while EFCC FC conceded the least numbers of goals. They conceded 18 goals. Nasarawa United’s 8 goals conceded made them the team that conceded the lowest numbers of goals, while ABS scored the least number of goals of 5 goals.

Nigerian Football

Heartland back to their homeland as they host Shooting Stars

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2 days ago

April 18, 2024

Kunle Solaja

BY TOSIN OMOJOLA, OWERRI

The uncertainty surrounding our Matchday 31 encounter against Heartland FC of Owerri, has been cleared with the game eventually slated to hold at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, the home ground of the host team

The Nigeria Premier League has given the approval to the stadium after an inspection was carried out on Wednesday afternoon.

The Oluyole Warriors have since arrived the Imo State capital and have settled down ahead of Friday’s clash which will be be shown live on cable television.

Meanwhile, the Technical Adviser of the Ibadan soccer lords, Gbenga Ogunbote, while addressing the players on arrival at their hotel, urged them not to be distracted by the development.

“I want to apologise to you on the change of venue. We got to know about it some hours ago, but be that as it may, I want us to remain focused as and get the desired results we needed”.

In the same vein, the players of the Ibadan soccer lords, said they are not in any way moved by the change of venue, expressing their readiness to get the maximum points, not minding the venue.