Nigerian Sports Award: Nominations to Close September 26

Organizers Salutes Nigerian Athletes Performance at AAG

Organizers of the prestigious Nigerian Sports Award, Unmissable Incentives Limited has announced that the nominations of Sportsmen and Women for the different categories ofawards for the 2015 edition would close on Saturday, September 26, 2015

Kayode Idowu, Executive Director, Unmissable Incentives Limited, disclosed this inLagos on Monday while briefing the media on developments on the 2015 edition of the Nigerian Sports Award.

Idowu revealed that the nominations for this year’s edition of the award was deliberately prolonged to close after the just concluded All African Games to accommodate the different major sporting activities for the year.

‘’In the past, we have had instances where some Nigerian Sportsmen and Women recorded some outstanding performances during the course of the award year but couldn’t make it into nominations. This is why we decided to ensure that nominations for this year closes at the end of all the major sporting events” he said.

He then used the opportunity to commend and congratulate the Nigerian athletes to the just concluded All African Games for the outstanding performance and medal haul at the tournament.

He also commended the Nigerian Basketball Team, D’Tigers for winning the recently concluded FIBA Africa Basketball competition and picking the ticket to compete in the Basketball event at the next Olympic billed to hold in Rio, Brazil.

He then restates the call for Nigerians to seize the opportunity of the remaining few days to nominate their favourite Nigerian athletes who have recorded excellence performance in their various sports during the course of the year.

He urged Nigerian sports enthusiasts to visit the website of the award using the link - http://nigeriansportsaward.com/nominations/ or nominate on Facebook as well as Twitter.

It would be recalled that the nominations phase of the 2015 edition of the award opened on June 4^th, 2015. Verification of entries by the Auditors would hold between September 26^th and 28^th while the announcement of final shortlist would be made public on October 6^th.