NPFL distances self from proposed top scorer award
The Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, has expressed dissatisfaction at the deliberate flouting of its naming right by unscrupulous corporate organisations and their collaborators as organisers.
Chairman of the NPFL, Gbenga Elegbeleye made the observation on the heels of an announced Eunisell Golden Boot Award for the highest goal scorer in the just ended 2024/25 season.
Elegbeleye said the league appreciates value adding schemes such as the proposed payment of N3.6m awarded to the NPFL top scorer Anas Yusuf, but insisted that there are laid down procedures for organizations to partner with the League in organising awards.
DAILY POST reports that an award ceremony is scheduled to take place on Friday, June 13, 2025, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in GRA Ikeja, Lagos to present a cash prize to the 2024-25 NPFL top scorer.
“It is not right for any persons or organisations to use the name of the NPFL and announce an award without recourse to the asset owners,” Elegbeleye told NPFL media.
“We are going to use every legal channel to protect our asset from this ambush of the NPFL. We will write to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission so that this illegal activities will stop once for all.
“There must come a time when we must have to put a stop to end impunity no matter how long the illegality has been going on. This is the time and we must get things right.”
