By Emma Jemegah
This year’s Nigeria Pitch Awards for outstanding football players, administrators and journalists will hold at a yet to be announced venue in March 2024, organisers of the yearly event have disclosed.
President of the Nigeria Pitch Awards, Shina Phillips said yesterday at a media briefing, in Lagos, that the voting process will begin on December 4 and ends on January 12, 2024 while the winners would be announced during the International Match Window in March 2024.
Phillips proudly said that the Nigeria Pitch Awards, since 2012, has been built on integrity, credibility and transparency.
“To achieve this, we completely removed ourselves as organisers, from the award decisions as that was left entirely to sports editors and journalists across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It’s to our credit that in the last 10 years, after 480 nominations and 160 winners, there have been no controversial award decisions,” he said.
The president assured that in the years to come, the Nigeria Pitch Awards will continue to assemble guests and fans to celebrate footballers, officials, administrators, corporate bodies, states and journalists who work tirelessly and determinedly to bring glory to Nigeria and uplift the standard of football in the country.