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…Delta Queens, Nasarawa Amazons, clinch silver, bronze medals respectively
The Robo Football Club of Lagos has emerged winners of the second edition of the Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament (BOWFT), which came to a colorful close on Friday.
The hard-fighting Robo FC beat the host Edo Queens 1-0 to lift the tournament trophy at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin.
The 10-day event came to a thrilling conclusion amid cheers and fanfare, featuring scintillating cultural displays, singing, dancing, and drumming as well as exciting exotic displays by various groups to announce the end of the tournament.
The tournament, which is Nigeria’s only pre-season women football championship, is a brainchild of the Wife of the Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki. The tournament themed, ‘Say No to Drugs’ is aimed at raising awareness on the adverse effects of drug abuse among youths.

A seminar/lecture was also organised as part of the tournament bringing over 10,000 youths, eminent personalities, guests and representatives from Nigeria’s 36 states for a discourse to advance the campaign against drug abuse, its various manifestations, impact on the sports industry and the larger society, and the imperative for collective action to tackle the menace for the betterment of society.
Present at the closing ceremony were the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki; his deputy, Philip Shaibu; Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare; former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, and governors’ wives from Sokoto, Enugu, Delta, Abia, Ogun, Oyo, Taraba and Bayelsa States led by the Chairperson of the Nigeria Governors’ Wives Forum and First Lady of Ekiti State, Olabisi Fayemi, among others.
Others were wife of Edo State deputy governor, Maryann Shaibu, the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Marcus Onobun; Chairman Edo Sports Commission, Yusuf Ali, among others.
Welcoming guests to the event, at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, said “I welcome you all to Edo State to witness the closing ceremony and final match of the second edition of the BOWFT happening here at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, Edo State.
