Second edition of Aiteo - NFF Award will be live for viewership both on Satellite and terrestrial television this Monday, April 1st 2019.
Tonight’s event will be broadcast live by leading television houses SuperSport and Africa Independent Television (AIT).
The Nigeria Football Awards which will take place at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos; will attract a lot of bigwigs in the world and African football stakeholders.
Secretary General of world football–ruling body, FIFA, Fatma Samoura is in Nigeria, ahead of more than 20 Presidents of FIFA’s Member Associations across the African continent for today’s
The FIFA Secretary General will receive the NFF Order of Merit award.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while internationally–renown business mogul, politician and avid football financier and supporter, Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola, who died in 1998, will be honoured post –humously with the NFF Presidential Award.
Among the highlights of the night would be the special honour to the 1994 set of Super Eagles – the squad forever referred to as the ‘Golden Generation’ for being the first to qualifying Nigeria for the FIFA World Cup finals, winning the Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia and reaching the Round of 16 at the World Cup finals in America.
A good number of the squad members teamed up with the Dream Team of 1996 that became Africa’s first winners of the men’s football gold at the quadrennial Olympic Games.
At a press briefing on Friday, NFF 1st Vice President and Chairman of the Awards Organizing Committee, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi lauded sponsors AITEO for continued support for the annual event and assured that both organizations are set to put on a great show tonight.
AITEO’s General Manager, Finance, Taiye Eyewuoma stated that the sponsor, Nigeria’s leading energy solution company and NFF’s Official Optimum Partner, is committed to continuing to sponsor the awards ceremony as the partnership “is yielding good dividends for AITEO”.
AITEO is also the sponsor of the Federation Cup competition and the annual African Football Awards.
