KTC win Shell Cup, N2m *Naniya lauds players
By ADO SALISU, with agency report
KANO state commissioner of education, Dr. Tijjani Muhammad Naniya has described the victory of Kano Teachers College (ktc) football team in the just-concluded 9th edition of All Secondary Schools football championship otherwise known as Shell Cup not only to the state but to the entire Northern part of the country.
He was speaking yesterday while welcoming the victorious team from Abuja after they defeated their Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan counterparts 7-6 in a penalty shoot-out at the National Stadium, Abuja on Sunday.
Dr. Naniya said that the team’s victory is another sign of support and commitment of the present administration led by Malam Ibrahim Shakarau towards the overall developmental programmes of the state government.
According to him, the state government was not only happy with the team’s victory but the way and manner the players conducted themselves throughout the competition which showed the significance of the state government’s A Daidaita Sahu programme.
‘’We have been watching your movement right from the preliminary stages in Kaduna, Niger and the venue of the final Abuja which the team won the most disciplined team; this is very appreciable to the government” he said.
He commended the players, officials as well as the head of school sports of the state ministry of education for a job well-done and charged them to sustain the tempo in future national and international competitions.
The commissioner then said that his ministry will intimate the state governor for a possible reception for the victorious team within this week.
Speaking also, the principal of Kano Teachers College, Alhaji Auwalu Ibrahim expessed satisfaction with the players’ commitment, zeal and dedication throughout the competition.
Meanwhile, the team won the competition with
six points, winning the first prize tag of N2.1 million and a golden cup to boot.
Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan won the second position, and went home with N1 million and a sliver medal on top.
The third position went to Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti with a prize tag of N250,000 and a bronze medal while Katsina Government College came fourth, also winning N200,000.
Giving a breakdown of the prizes, the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Mr Basil
Omiyi, said that N1.5 million of the money won by Kano would be used for sports facilities, while each player would go home with N15,000.
Meanwhile, Alao Tope from Ado Grammar
School bagged two prizes, namely the most valuable player and the highest goal scorer for the competition.
The best goalkeeper prize went to Akinola Omoleye from Ado Grammar School while the best midfielder prize went to Abubakar Mamman from Katsina.