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| Rivers Angels Captain,Lucky Atu |
Players and officials
of the 2014/15 season winners in the Nigeria Women's Football , Rivers Angels of Port-Harcourt, today in the Garden City presented
the League Trophy which they retained last week at the Super Six Tournament in
Umuahia,Abia State, to the Permanent Secretary of the Rivers State Ministry of Sports, Mr
Michael Nnodi.
Rivers Angels who pipped Bayelsa Queens 1-0 in the finals of the 4 days competition held
in Umuahia were led by Team manager, Mrs Matilda Michael Oyiloha and head coach
Edwin Okon.
Also present to receive
the team’s trophy were the Rivers State Director of Sports, Honorable Daobu
Harvest Harry (JP) and the Director of Rivers state Stadia Authority, Mr James
Nmehiele.
Team manager of the
club, Matilda Oyiloha while addressing the Permanent Secretary thanked the
ministry for all their support
“It’s indeed an honor
and privilege to be here today to present to you the 2015 Nigeria Women League
Champions, Rivers Angels”
“We want to use this
medium to say thank you for all your support even when the result was not forth
coming, you were giving us all the encouragements to forge ahead and we say a
very big thank you to you and promise to get you a double in 2016” Matilda
said.
On his part, the
Permanent Secretary, Mr Michael Nnodi promised to present the trophy to the
state governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike.
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| Permanent secretary and Sports Director behold the Trophy. |
“When Rivers Angels
lost out of the FA competition, everyone was surprised, we all felt bad about
it but thank God you were able to bring the bigger one which is the league
title”
“Here is the trophy and
we’ll ensure it gets to his Excellency, there’s nothing much for me to say
rather than whatever we can do for you, we’ll contact your team manager as we
put our heads together to ensure that something is done for you” said the
Permanent secretary.
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