Sports: Nigeria League To Name Award After Yekini

Posted by African Examiner Sports News Tuesday, July 14th, 2015

The League Management Company has named the yet-to-be-unveiled Highest Goal Scorer trophy for the Nigeria Professional Football League after Super Eagles legend Rashidi Yekini.

LMC Chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko, said in a statement that the decision to name the trophy after the late striker was made by the board in order to immortalise the player who scored a total of 37 goals in 58 appearances for Nigeria.

“There is a broad plan to institute awards and honour outstanding players, officials, key stakeholders and fans in the league at the end of every season. There are a number of factors that led us to reach the decision to name one of these awards, that of the highest goal scorer, after the late Rashidi Yekini.

The awards is part of strategic plans of the LMC to create commercial value and additional revenues out of the assets inherent in the league property,” Dikko said in a statement on the league’s website.

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