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I am delighted to welcome you for the 17th time in the last 10 years to the Nigeria Pitch Awards Press Conference. Your presence here today, as in the past editions, is a testimony of your commitment to the growth of Nigerian football and your support for a credible platform for rewarding excellence, hard work and talent in football.
I would like to restate the resolve and commitment of the organizers to continue to sustain this award platform. Within the last decade, we have remained resolute in our objective of giving Nigerian football a credible award platform which can consistently motivate and inspire healthy competition among our players, coaches, administrators, sponsors and journalists. This has come at a great cost to us but the outcome we have witnessed in recent years has shown that it is indeed a worth while project.
The shortlist that will be announced shortly by our collation and audit partner is entirely the result of the professional work put in by the voters and SIAO Partners. The results clearly reflect the wishes of our voters across the country. Being nominated in the first place is a huge honour and I therefore urge all those nominated to accept their nomination with a sense of fulfilment. We had envisaged that the 10th Award Ceremony would hold in March during the International Match Window. Unfortunately, the team would not be coming to Nigeria.
We will therefore announce the date for the grand 10th Award Ceremony after due consultation with all our partners. I would like to express our appreciation to the President and Management Team of the Nigeria Football Federation who have been our partner in this project since inception. Without doubt, the media have been one of our strongest allies. We hold the editors and journalists in very high esteem; your contributions and steadfastness to the Nigeria Pitch Awards has been a huge source of support to us. We are also very appreciative of the resourcefulness displayed by SIAO Partners who have been selfless, thorough, and professional in their approach to this national assignment
