Leading sports equipment firms, Zenith Sports Limited and Haggai Sports have joined the list of sponsors of the Nigerian Awards for Sporting Excellence (NASE). The event holds on Saturday, December 2, 2017 at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

The sponsorship deal was finalised on Thursday, November 23, when a high-powered NASE delegation visited the corporate headquarters of Zenith Sports at 92, Ojuelegba Road, Lagos.

“We are happy to partner with the Nigerian Awards for Sporting Excellence in our common goal of taking Nigerian sports to higher heights,” Zenith Sports Managing Director, Mr. Paul Maduakor said at the occasion.

On his part, NASE Administrator, Mr. Isaac Umunna, who led the delegation, expressed appreciation for the sponsorship of the Zenith Sports Group. “We are honoured and humbled to enjoy the confidence of a foremost establishment like the Zenith Sports Group and we look forward to working together with you to take Nigerian sports to the level where it ought to be,” Umunna said.

Zenith Sports are renowned dealers in sport wears, fitness equipment, skateboard, jersey, customised sport wears and shoes. Haggai, a subsidiary of Zenith Sports, boasts the first automated high-speed sportswear factory in Nigeria, a new dimension in indigenous sportswear manufacturing.

A brainchild of Nigeria’s pioneer all-sport online daily newspaper, Daily Sports (dailysportsng.com), NASE is designed to reward Nigerian sportsmen, women and administrators who excel in any given year, as well as corporate bodies contributing significantly to the development and growth of Nigerian sports.

The nominees for this year’s awards include Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi; sensational winger Victor Moses; veteran striker Obafemi Martins; safe hands Carl Ikeme and Ikechukwu Ezenwa; goal queen Asisat Oshoala; and tennis sensation Aruna Quadri. Others include Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio, and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima.

“Other nominees for the maiden awards, as well as some of the dignitaries expected to grace the award ceremony would be unveiled in due course,” according to the Chairman of the Award Committee, Prince Isidore Oduah, a former Executive Committee member of the Nigeria Football Association (now known as Nigeria Football Federation).

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