Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sports Commission backs Premier League over sponsorship deal

The Nigerian Premier League had a breakthrough yesterday when an adjudication panel set up by the National Sports Commission, gave it the all clear to proceed with MTN as new title sponsors.

Last week, the league organising body announced telecommunications company MTN as its new sponsors on a four-year deal.
Barely twenty four hours later, rival bidders Glo launched a protest, claiming the bidding process was not transparent.
The NFF also weighed in, berating the NPL for ‘not following established protocol’.
On Tuesday, the NSC called all the parties and then set up a committee comprising of 10 lawyers to evaluate the process.
After over 15 hours of deliberation, the panel not only ruled that the NPL had been fair to all parties involved in the process, but commended them for doing what it called ‘a professional job’.
And on Wednesday, after briefing the Nigeria Football Federation President, Aminu Maigari, the NPL was given the go ahead to do business with the new sponsors.




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