The 13th Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC Ltd., sports fiesta will kick-off tomorrow at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja as the company strives to retain its legendary status of the team to beat in the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Games, NOGIG, coming up later in April, this year.
According to Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the company, in a statement he issued, this year’s edition of the biennial event themed “Healthy Workforce, Productive Organization,” symbolises NNPC Ltd.’s belief in the integral role of physical well-being towards enhancing organizational productivity among employees.
He said the event would see the company’s employees competing in 13 games namely football, basketball, volleyball, chess, squash, scrabble, 8-ball pool, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, swimming and athletics.
The one-week event, which will climax on Friday, 23rd February, 2024, will also feature a novelty match that will see the NNPC Ltd Football Team trading tackles with Ex-Super Eagles Stars, led by Nigeria’s legendary Captain, Austin J.J. Okocha.
This year, the spokesman said, the six NNPC Ltd zones had undergone a restructuring, following their consolidation into three teams that represented the company’s three core values of Integrity (Port Harcourt/Benin); Excellence (Lagos/Warri) and Sustainability (Abuja/Kaduna).
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Soneye said the tournament, which was set to showcase friendly yet spirited contests among the three teams, would also serve as a platform for selecting NNPC Ltd’s potential flagbearers at the forthcoming Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry Games (NOGIG) in April 2024, where the company would defend its title of Overall Winner, a feat it had maintained over the years.
“The NNPC Ltd has been a serial winner of the NOGIG Games, which also features other participants from International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria and key agencies under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources.
“During the last edition of NOGIG held in 2020 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, NNPC Ltd emerged the overall winner of the tournament, carting home 48 laurels, which include 13 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze medals,” Soneye said.
