The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Sports (NIS),H.E, comrade<\/p>\n
Philip Shaibu has congratulated Edo Queens for emerging champions of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Premiership.<\/p>\n
Shaibu, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Ben Ogbemudia, on Sunday in Abuja described the achievement as a deserving reward for the dedication, hard work and determination displayed by the team and management throughout the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdo Queens had once again demonstrated the growing strength and influence of women\u2019s football in Nigeria, while bringing honour and pride to Edo State and the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club\u2019s success reflects the positive impact of sustained investment in sports development and talent nurturing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe achievement of the team will serve as an inspiration to a new generation of young female athletes to pursue excellence in sports,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Shaibu\u00a0 commended the Edo\u00a0 Government for its commitment to sports development, noting that the state had continued to record impressive achievements across various sporting disciplines.<\/p>\n
He expressed confidence that the Benin-based team would make Nigeria proud on the continental stage while urging them to remain focused as they prepare to compete against some of Africa\u2019s top clubs.<\/p>\n
The NIS boss wished the team greater success in their continental campaign and reaffirmed the support of sports stakeholders and Nigerians in their quest for more laurels for the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Sports (NIS),H.E, comrade Philip Shaibu has congratulated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-268369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}