N10M Up For Grabs As, Shabi Showers Delta Government With Praise

N10M Up For Grabs As, Shabi Showers Delta Government With Praise

Ibraheem Lateef

As the curtain gets drawn on the Nigeria Women Football League 2023 on Sunday, the league body, the NWFL, a women's football arm of the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) has officially announced the prize money at stake as 4 teams go to battle for the coveted top 3 award-winning slots in the league. 

The Super 6 Championship, contested by the 6 top women club sides in the country, started earlier in the week but after the separation of the wheat from the Chaff, four teams, Confluence Queens, Rivers Angels, Bayelsa Queens, and Delta Queens were left for supremacy battle going into the last day. 

In a release from the Twitter handle of the NWFL, a total of N18 Million is at stake on Sunday. 

"N10 Million is going to the team that wins the final. The runner up will get N5 Million while the 3rd placed team goes home with N3 Million", a statement signed by the NWFL Chief Operating Officer, Modupe Shabi stated clearly. 

"We thank the Delta State Government for approving the rewards but we are much more grateful for the hosting of the championship itself. The Government and the good people of Delta State have been very welcoming and we have had a hitch-free championship. The Delta State Sports Commission Chairman, Chief Tonobok Okowa, and other members of the Commission have attended all the games from Day 1 and we just can't express enough gratitude", the Women Football Administrator revealed to this reporter via a telephone interview.

The COO ended the conversation by wishing all the teams well going into the final day while assuring that a spectacle awaits everyone at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, the venue of the Super 6 Championship finale.