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Abuja agog, as 150 Golfers storm IBB Golf Course for 2nd edition of eTranzact Golf tournament
Joel Ajayi
There is a lot of excitement, as over 150 golfers in the continent of Africa set to stormed IBB international golf country come Wednesday to square it out fierce battle at the second edition of the etranzact golf classic tourney.
The eTranzact Golf Classic, a three-day will see over 100 professional and amateur golfers to rumble at Prestigious IBB golf club as from May 15 to 17 at the IBB International Golf country club.
Among the country expecting at this year event are Cameroon, Ghana,Togo Ivory Coastnd as well as their counterparts from Nigeria will slugging it out in epic clash.
Speaking in a press briefing ahead of the Championship on Friday, in Abuja the Managing Director, of eTranzact, international Niyi Toluwalope, said the sponsor is committed to promoting any sports event that will impact the life of every Nigeria and continent at Large.
“When we partnered with the PGD Tours last year, we promised that the Classic will provide a platform to promote and elevate professional and amateur golfing in Africa, while fostering business to business collaborations, and facilitating partnerships between business and government,” Toluwalope said.
“This year, we are re-affirming our commitment to this noble sporting event, and all that it has to offer. We have taken our support a notch higher by introducing some exciting changes around the event. The increased prize money is also a further demonstration of our commitment to make the Classic more competitive and attract the absolute best of golfers to perform at this stage,” he said.
“We are also excited to be bringing the competition to the beautiful, serene, and hilly environment of the prestigious golf course, the IBB course,” he also said.
According to Toluwalope, eTranzact involvement in sports is a demonstration of the organisation’s resolve to keep supporting and providing innovative solutions and platforms to help businesses to succeed in the marketplace.
“This is in line with our vision, which is to be the preferred integrated financial technology platform for merchants and consumers. We are leveraging on our homegrown, world-class switching and payment processing platform to facilitate business successes across all sectors of the economy,” he further said.
Toluwalope also noted that the organisation aims to empower and enable financial technology institutions for financial services eco system in the country and beyond.
Meanwhile, players from Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Togo, Senegal and Nigeria are expected to feature at the four-day event which holds on May 15 to 18.
Sports
NIS/ LSFA Coaches Training Attracts Dutch Embassy Interest
The training of coaches in Lagos State organized by the National Institute for Sports Lagos in collaboration with the Lagos State Football Association has attracted the interest of the Dutch Embassy with two coaches to be shortlisted for further training in Holland.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 4th batch of grassroot coaches on 22 February ,2025 at the National Institute for Sports Lagos Sir Dr.Awoture ELEYAE Conference Hall,Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association Hajji Gafar Liameed said ” The sucess of the programme is attracting interests from across the country with Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Delta, Katsina state Governments indicating interest.
” Very soon the Commissioner for Sports in Katsina State will soon visit the Director-General of the Institute to discuss how to train their coaches. I must thank the Director-General Professor Olawale Moronkola for being a shining light for Football and sports development generally . We shall continue to collaborate to ensure that the light which God has created you to be continue to shine”
To underscore the importance of the training, the Chairman said the Dutch Embassy has indicated interest in further training of two coaches in the Netherlands by bankrolling all the expenses.
” This programme has opened up new opportunities for further training of two coaches in Holland.
Addressing the trainees,he urged them all to make the best use of the training so that they can make good impact in Lagos state FA Football development efforts”
While delivering the lead paper titled: “Traits of a succeful Coach,” Professor Moronkola said a successful coach should build good team and not only good players to succeed.
He enumerated traits of a successful coach as ; focused, persistent, strong ethical values,result oriented, a learner of new things, current knowledge about tactics, rules and regulations.
He must also be a good and effective communicator, listener , role model,mentor and manager.
The training is targeted at grassroot football coaches in Lagos State to upscale their knowledge in modern Football coaching techniques.
Some of the resource persons include former Super Eagles Assitant coach Fatai Amoo, Nduka Ugbade, Jeremiah Kuhwa and James Adesina will be tutoring the coaches over 4- week training.
The Institute has approved that the special training course will qualify special coaches for the basic certificate course in the insitute.
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