….As Teams Arrives Friday, Hostilities commence Saturday 31st

Joel Ajayi

The Secretary-General of Handball Federation of Nigeria Mohammed Haruna Maigidansanma has revealed that the federation is 100 percent ready to have the best and special 2020 edition Prudent Energy handball league.

He stated this in an interview with Journalists in Abuja on the federation preparedness for the biggest handball tournament in the country.

According to him, we want to thank God for giving us another year, 2020 edition of  Prudent Energy handball Premier League is going to be a special edition, consolidated one.

“Consolidated in the sense that we are not able to organize it in the phases, unlike previous editions, we used to have the first Phase by April and second phases by October because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are able to collapse it and have championship here in Abuja.

“Having said this, it’s so special in the sense that, there is a lot of hectic challenges of COVID, we went through a lot of assessment from the ministry to ensure we have all the COVID measure, procedural on the ground and through that ministry has sent the inspection teams they came, they saw and they were able to assess and made observations and some corrections so, along this line we have been given the approval.

“We thank the ministry for believing in the federation and we are going to follow tenaciously arrangement of the COVID.

“We are expecting the teams from Friday, although we would have started the league ENDSARS protest cause the delay and this Friday by God’s grace the teams will arrive and by Saturday 31st October we start the matches

“And we are going to have 10 female teams and 12 male teams respectively.”  He hinted

Speaking on the expectations Maigidansanma, said that every team is coming to win and luckily for them, the subsidy has been jerked up to N300,000 against the previous N250,000 while the winner price is N1.250, 000 million;  N1,000,000 and  N750,000 respectively for both male and female categories.

“With all these motivations, it’s going to spur all the team to the action, however, we have sent out messages, we have communicates all teams all of them have done the test as they are arriving on Friday, we are going to get their certificates of the test which I believe they will not disappoint us.

“Every team is coming here to prove their worth, I want to believe we are going to have a very productive championship though, and there will be no spectators apart from stakeholders, Ministry possibly the journalists.

We are expecting to see the emergence of new players, this year we have newly four teams Delta force, Kogi Confluence for male and Kwara Adorable Angels, and Benue Queens and who promoted into elite division among these they are coming into the elite and they have young players, so it going to be an avenue to see more of our national teams.”

When asked if the federation having any challenge toward the Tournament? He replied: we don’t have many challenges because its sponsor championship and we have been enjoying the support of the ministry, the facilities are ready, both for the indoor and outdoor as well as the high-performance center where athletes will camp.

“The only challenges we have are the COVID but we are going to overcome it.” He assured.

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