Borno State football team, Elkanemi Warriors, has been charged to lift the 2024 federation cup which the final match was fixed for 29th June, 2024, at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena (Onikan), Lagos.
The NNL football competition tagged the “Battle of the Warriors’’ would be played between the Elkanemi Warriors of Maiduguri and Abia Warriors.
Chairman of Nigeria National League (NNL), Mr. George Aluo, made the charge while encouraging the Elkanemi Warriors to go all out and win this year’s President Federation Cup.
Aluo noted that the impressive performance of Elkanemi Warriors in both the second tier league and the Federation Cup is an indication that they can lift the trophy for the third time, after lifting the same in 1991 and 1992.
Aluo maintained that the number of NNL teams that made it to the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the FA Cup shows how solid the league is and the good work done by the league body and expressed confidence that the three other promoted teams will do well in the NPFL next season.
He also commended Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) and their strategic partners GTI Assets Management & Trust Limited for bringing back the glamour of the most prestigious football tournament in the country.
“As football fans eagerly await the finals of this year’s Federation Cup, I must commend the NFF and their strategic partners, GTI, for what they have done to bring back the glamour of the most prestigious football tournament in the country.
“History will always remember them as those who changed the narratives of Nigerian football and I will be ever grateful to them”, he concluded.
The winner of the President Federation Cup will represent Nigeria in the CAF Confederation Cup along side Enyimba FC of Aba.
