Nigeria Pitch Awards to Honour Aisha Buhari, IGP, Amokachi, Others

The Nigeria Pitch Award has listed the country’s First Lady, Dr. Aisha Buhari tops on the list of high ranking personalities to be honoured at this year’s Ceremony scheduled for March 26, 2022

Speaking at a luncheon for the awards’ college of voters in Lagos yesterday, President of the Nigeria Pitch Awards, Shina Philips, said Mrs Buhari will be presented with the Special Achievement in Sports Award for the successful hosting of the inaugural edition of the six-nation Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Football Tournament which held recently.

Other football personalities to be honoured at the 8th edition of the foremost football award in the country include; the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman as well as former Nigeria international, Daniel Amokachi.

NFF President, Amaju Melvin Pinnick who is also a CAF and FIFA Executive Committee member, will also be honoured for his contributions to the game at one point or the other.

Shina thanked the awards’ college of voters and the accounting firm, SIAO Partners for standing with Matchmakers over the years.

Philips said the forthcoming edition is going to be grand , adding the voting process for the 8th edition would soon commence in the last week of October.

In all over 170 sports journalists across the country have been involved in the voting process at different times.

It is arguably Nigeria’s numero uno football award that the countries senior national team players look forward to every year since its first edition in 2013.