Aisha Falode, the Chairperson of the oldest women’s league in Africa, spoke about the reform that the league has been undergoing since she took over in 2017 as well as the challenges the league board has faced and are still facing in their bid to continue raising the bar on quality and professionalism.

The ace Sports Journalist and Football Administrator who has been a great inspiration to alot young Ladies shed more light on the progress of the NWFL under her leadership.

“We are a role model to other African countries,” she noted. “The football associations of other countries write to us to give them our template.”
 
The Aisha Falode-led board has created a structure that offers more competitions and priorities the welfare of players and referees.

“You cannot sell yourself short,” Falode stated.
 
It may have taken five years for the first sponsorship deal to eventually arrive, but Falode is proud of the work they have put in to transform the women’s league in Nigeria, in spite of having “next to zero support”.

The Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) recently signed a multi-million naira partnership deal ahead of the NWFL Premiership Super Six scheduled to take place in Benin from 16-22 May 2022.

 
Falode, who also pointed out that “we must begin to blow our own trumpet” used some of her time on stage to call on more companies to invest in women’s football in Nigeria with the emphasis that “football today is big business”.

The Organisers of the Ladies In Sports International Conference (LIS) on Thursday gave sports grants of Two Hundred Thousand Naira each to three young women athletes and a football team, Alimosho Ladies at the 2022 Edition held at the Eko Hotels And Suites.

Among the recipients of the grants are Imo Strikers Star, Harmony Achiefula, whose goalscoring prowess was the talk of the town in the NWFL Nationwide League, Stella Ayankele, currently, the best home-based 100m hurdler and reigning Nigeria University Games (NUGA) champion, Temitope Adesina, the reigning National Sports Festival champion in high jump, and Alimosho Football Club, who will be Nigeria’s sole representative at the Neymar Cup that will be taking place in Qatar.
 

In line with the theme of this year’s event, LIS founder Tega Onojaife said the LIS Conference will also be taking the next steps in subsequent editions as more days and programmes will be added to the event to cover different areas of sports.
 
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