Ajeast Nigeria Limited, bottlers of Big Cola soft drinks has boosted this year’s Med-View/Lagos NUJ Media Games with a donation of N1million.
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Lagos State Council, ‘Deji Elumoye
disclosed on Wednesday that the company has promised to support the annual event of the
journalists.
“The donation when eventually released will go a long way in the organisation of the Games and we hope our relationship with the company will be a lasting one,” said Elumoye.
Reacting to the donation, Marketing Executive of the company, Perpetua Ohiri, said the company decided to support the Games because of the roles of journalists in the country.
“This is a new relationship and I want to say that it has come to stay. This is just the beginning and by God’s grace, we will improve on our donation during next year’s event.
“We all know what is going on in the country, hence we could have done more than this but definitely, next year’s edition will be bigger and better,” Ohiri said.
Over 200 journalists are participating in this year’s edition of the Games in seven events - football, athletics, scrabble, chess, draught, ayo and table tennis.
Meanwhile, The Sun and Vanguard soccer teams will on Friday, October 28 clash at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, in the first semi-final of the NUJ Games, while defending champions, Lagos Information Chapel will tackle the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Chapel in another battle for the final ticket.
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