The striker pulled a total 62.2% of the votes from the poll to beat (Midfielder) Afeez Noshiru, (Defender) Ayodeji Bamidele and (Striker) Samad Kadiri to emerge winner of award.

Chairman of Kwara United Kumbi Titiloye, ABS Ilorin FC Director Of football and Secretary NPFL club owners association Chief Alloy Chukwuemeka, Ace Sports Broadcaster (The Dean Of Sports) Bayour Issah alongside other football stakeholders in the state were all present during the award presentation held at the Kwara United secretariat inside the Kwara State Complex Stadium Ilorin on Monday 8th August 2022.

Alao Dabani becomes the third winner of SportsFlames Award after Onuwa Chukwuka who won the first edition and Adeyinka Najeem who won the second edition both at MFMFC while Alao Danbani becomes the first to win it with Kwara United.

Reacting after receiving the award, Alao Danbani stated that it was the first award in his career that it is an award he will forever cherish however thanking the Organisers for giving him something he would never forget in the future.

” This is the first award I would be receiving in my career, I am so happy because it is something to remember for the future, I want to as well thank the organisers for making this happen”, he said.

Also reacting was Olatoye Olawale, managing partner of SportsFlames Communications and General Manager SGFC Athletics Sports Club who rolled out the concept for the award.

” It started in 2017 this was an idea we sat down to deliberate upon and we felt it would be nice that we reward players for their exceptional performance in the past”, He said.

” We started with MFM Football Club in 2017 and we had four nominees for the award with Chukwuka Onuwa emerging the winner of the first edition, we were supposed to have it the following season but due to the World Cup Russia 2018 the league was suspended we could not hold it and the following season again we had the coronavirus outbreak so we still could not hold it. But we came back stronger last season when Adeyinka Najeem won it and here again we are having it in Kwara United so we can say officially that we’ve done three editions.

We have a vision attached with a mission to always reach a destination so if we do anything we are not always surprised as much it may be we are always excited to see the players happy when you reward them for their individual brilliance”, he concluded.

Alao Danbani scored Nine goals in past season and helped Kwara United finish 4th on the NPFL log which has qualified them for a continental football next season.

Organisers of the maiden Sportflames/Kwara United player of the year 2022 has rolled out plans and modalities for the awards.

The award Which was previously held in Lagos since it began in 2016 will be coming to Kwara State for the first time and four Kwara United stars including Ayodeji Bamidele, Alao Danbani, Afeez Noshiru and Samad Kadiri has been nominated challenge for the individual crown.

Chief Organizers of the award, Olatoye Olawale, Online Editor of SportFlames, and Football Administrator is excited to bring the award down to Kwara State as he believed it’s an avenue to further encourage Premier League players to do more and be consistent with their performance.

According to Olatoye,” I’m excited that this year’s edition of the award would be taking place in Kwara State, our previous edition has been in Lagos, since moving down to Ilorin, it’s a great opportunity for us to put smiles on the faces of Kwara United players and the fans, it’s also one of many ways in which we can help motivate and encouraging the players to keep giving 100% to their game”,

“Also this project is our own Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to rewarding player’s individual brilliance and excellence after having distinguished himself on and off the pitch”, He said.

A voting portal where Sports Journalists and fans can vote for the nominee of their choice has been opened on the website https://bit.ly/sportflameskupoty with voting already ongoing, the voting will be closed on the 3rd July 2022.

The winner will be announced on Match Day 37 and the presentation of the award will be on Kwara United’s’s last home game of the season against MFM FC, on 7th July 2022 at the Kwara State Stadium Complex Ilorin.

It was a huge moment of relief for the General Manager of SGFC Athletics Football club Olawale Olatoye after his team recorded an emphatic 3-0 victory over Ogbomosho United at the Kwara State Complex Stadium Ilorin on Thursday evening.

Aftermath of the consecutive defeat to Gidado FC and Hammola FC, SGFC Athletics needed some sort of motivation to bounce back and offcourse they did it in a ground style with a scintillating victory over their counterpart at the Kwara State Stadium Complex Ilorin.

Goals from Etaghara Bright, Hyginus Wisdom and Charles Obani was enough as SGFC Athletics cruised on an emphatic 3-0 victory over Ogbomoso United as they record their second win of the NLO campaign in the process.

Speaking to News Men after the game the Ace Journalist cum Administrator expressed how elated he was to have earned such a remarkable victory, “I am absolutely excited I must say, a big relief coming back from a consecutive defeat”, he said.

“At some point I was a bit shaking because the goals wasn’t coming but I believed in my boys I know definitely that they can do it during the break I just told them to get out there and get the goals let them know that you have it and you can deliver.

“We would not rely on this victory but we where able to go back every game day weather we lose or win, we analyse it what are we doing right what are we doing wrong, we feel that our wrong was more than our right so we try to do everything right in this game and then we got this victory.

“We’ll definitely continue because we are SGFC ‘One For All’ ‘All For One’ we never relent and game time is always a time to be ready when we cross this hurdle then we move to the next until the end of the season”, he concluded.

The indelible mark left by the late General Manager of Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC), Rasheed Balogun, has continued to attract honours for the late football administrator.

Latest in the roll call of honours for the former Julius Berger, Dolphins and Sunshine Stars bigwig,, who passed on in January, was a posthumous award, given to him by the organisers of the Evolution Cup.

The presentation of the award took place during the half time of the Oluyole Warriors’ midweek cracker against Rangers International, played at the Lekan Salami Stadium.

While presenting the award to the acting General Manager of the club, Dimeji Lawal, coordinator of Evolution Cup, Olatoye Olawale (Sportflames), said the gesture was in appreciation of the contribution of the late Balogun, fondly called “Ekulekule”, to the round leather game in the country.

While receiving the award on behalf of his late boss, Lawal, fondly called Kabongo, who was close to tears, expressed appreciation to the organisers of the Evolution Cup for bestowing the honour on the late astute football administrator.

The acting 3SC GM, was also decorated with a medal, a honour besowed on him by Evolution Cup in recognition of his contributions to the development of football in Nigeria.

The conference with the theme: ‘Covid-19 pandemic : A call to rescue humanity’ focused on the need to revive the society through a critical and strategic engagement after the deadly blow of the coronavirus.

Technocrats, who formed the panel of discussion from public and private world all recommended the need to start post Covid-19 restoration agenda from the grassroot as it remains an integral part of the society.

Olatoye Olawale, Managing Partner of Sportflames communication and the Coordinator of NSF-USA in Nigeria who received the award on behalf of the organisation lauded the initiative of the grassroots award forum as he noted that the recognition will spur them to do more .

Olatoye, a sports journalist of repute who was also a panelist at the event stated that it is high time the people at the grassroots receive their due recognition as a way of rewarding their contribution to the development of the society adding that they are foundation of everything.

Nigeria Soccer Federation, United States based sports forum with focus on sports development in Nigeria through it’s partners, Sportflames Communications and GIS Sports had distributed Covid-19 relief package to a total number of 400 Non-League football players in Lagos state last month.

The gesture which received  wide range commendations from all the stakeholders is the first of its kind as the federation philanthropically identified with youth players in order to give them a sense of belonging.

NSF-USA, who annually celebrates Nigeria’s Independence with a football tournament in the United States had decided to doll out  palliatives as a way of cushioning the effect of the novel Coronavirus on players in the grassroots as the tourney couldn’t hold due to pandemic.

Some of the guests at the event includes Oba Abdulwasiu Omogbolahan Lawal Abisogun 11,
Oniru of Iruland, Madam Farida Tahir ,MD, CEO, Grassroots Microfinance Bank Limited, Kano State who was the guest speaker,
Honourable Johnson Babatunde
Executive Chairman, Orile agege local council development area of Lagos State and Mr Deji Bademosi, the CEO of TV360.