CELEBRATING CHAMPIONS OF NON-FOOTBALL SPORTS, NFS

In the last twenty years, Nigeria has not won any major football competition. In these last twenty years, Nigeria and indeed corporate Nigeria have invested massively in football thereby sustaining that old assumption that football is the only sport that promotes, unites us or that it would help sell our goods and promotes our political and corporate image.

(2) That has not been the case. Instead of that massive investment to yield the anticipated dividends, three things have happened:

(i) we are mostly hypertensive when our football team plays – notice too, that our football teams (male and female) were not at the World Cup in South Africa nor at the London 2012 Olympics respectively and in Russia 2018 Nigeria did  not go beyond the group stage.

(ii) investment in football has not always sold any goods and services, and

      (iii) Nigeria has unwittingly enriched only the practitioners and those who run football with our massive investment.

     (iv) other sports like Boxing, Athletics, tennis, golf, hockey, swimming and weightlifting have brought Nigeria glory , fame and laurels http://saharareporters.com/2017/05/02/nigeria-and-britain-fight-over-who-claims-anthony-joshua-world-heavyweight-boxing, https://www.pulse.ng/sports/dtigers-nigeria-beat-caf-114-69-to-qualify-for-fiba-world-cup-id8860280.html, https://www.pulse.ng/sports/other_sports/d-tigress-nigeria-beat-argentina-75-70-in-2018-fiba-world-cup-id8901131.html, https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/nigeria-sports-news/279930-table-tennis-aruna-quadri-makes-history-to-win-first-nigeria-open-title.html, https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/278853-asaba-2018-okagbare-in-action-as-nigeria-wins-three-more-gold-medals.html

(3) But there are corporate bodies like yours that have invested in other sports apart from football. Or perhaps you want to invest in non-football sports either as an expression of your corporate social responsibility, CSR, or you desire to promote your goods and services with sports like basketball, boxing, polo, golf, hockey, swimming, weightlifting and etcetera?

(4) Bob MajiriOghene Communications wants to work with you on this.  We want to collaborate with you. However, we can only support and partner with you only if you let us help you tell everyone what you want to do, what you have done, and what sport, apart from football you are keen to support either as an expression of your CSR, or as a tool to promote your brand or your company or institution. As the 2019 elections draw near, this opportunity gives emerging political figures the chance to brand themselves to the teeming young voters out there as a great investor/supporter of non football sports, NFS.

(5)Bob MajiriOghene Communications, a foremost media organisation/consult will collaborate with mainstream media to tell/present stories about corporate institutions and individuals that have supported non-football sports as an expression of their CSR, or want to use that publication to sell their brand or score a crucial political point. These features will run weekly.

(6) To participate, simply send us your corporate profile or bio or photos or and arrange to send us to any location that eloquently expresses your involvement in any NFS. All you need do is pick up the bills for placing your involvement in non-football sports on the newspaper and a token as our editorial fee which you pay AFTER your NFS has been published. 

(7) We want to congratulate you on/for this key decision to promote and sponsor a NFS, and include your organisation or person in the role-call of the who-is-who in the development of NFS in Nigeria.

(8) For further details, please call Bob on 08156171133, +2349092194428 or email: majirioghene@yahoo.com, majirioghene@gmail.com or Austin Oboh, assistant editor (Daily) Daily Independent Newspaper, Lagos, on 08056381188, 08094847369.