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Exciting Times Ahead For Nigeria Women Football As Minister Promises Big

 

Nigeria’s Sports Minister Mr Sunday Dare has promised to get all major stakeholders in the industry together before the end of the month with a view to getting sponsorship for the Nigeria Women Professional League.

The sports ministry boss made the promise while attending the NWPL Super Four final at Agege Stadium, as he hailed the quality of the competition displayed by the teams and the league’s improving standards.

Rivers Angels emerged champions after pipping Confluence Queens to the title while Bayelsa Queens came third after thrashing Adamawa Queens 4-0.

“I am impressed by what I have seen today, we have seen female professional football at its best,” Mr Sunday Dare said after the games, as observed by Soccernet.ng. 

“The question should be, with this level of professional skills we have seen on display today, what would the ministry do more to help them?

“We’ve seen the exhibition of talents, we know some of our footballers are headed for the Professional League outside of this country.

“All I can say is that the Sports Ministry would partner with the Nigeria Football Federation and we will also try to see that we get the sponsorship to support them to do better.

“We will meet with all the key stakeholders before the end of November to start to draw a strategic plan on how to improve the domestic league.

“As I said earlier, it is very critical, it is the engine room of our football development, that’s where we produce our professional players that can go abroad.

“So we are going to pay close attention working with the NFF, the club owners and the referees and coaches to isolate the issues and deal with them,” the minister concluded.

 

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