Pls this may be my own opinion, but I think some people in the glass house and GLO are trying to destroy football in Nigeria. I wonder who contacted AIT asking them to drop MTN as sponsor of the MTN/AIT Football Award. Is it that because of GLO's partnership with NFF, MTN cannot go anywhere near football in Nigeria, this is crazy.

The same thing is happening in NFL, where because GLO is the title sponsor, then no communication company wil go near clubs. Maybe CAF should write these two bodies NFF and NFL and inform them that Orange Communication is the title sponsor of CAF so-there-for no other communication company should go near football in any of the African countries. Pure Madness.

In South Africa PSL, Telkom is a telecommunication company, so also is MTN, but they are both Sponsors with the PSL. In Ghana, GLO is the title sponsor and MTN sponsor a team in the league, so what is this craze in Nigeria.

Ajax Cape Town (MTN Official Sponsor)
Amazulu (Spar - Official Sponsor)
Lamontville Golden Arrow ( MTN Official Sponsor)
Bloemfontein Celtic ( Vodacom Official Sponsor)
Kaizer Chiefs (Vodacom Official Sponsor)
Orlando Pirates (Vodacom Official Sponsor)
Supersports United (DSTV Official Sponsor)
Santos (Engen Official Sponsor)

Even in Ghana where Glo happens to be the title sponsor we still have MTN as a sponsor of some of the clubs; whyis Nigeria different

Actually, MTN has stated they aren't involved in Nigerian football because they don't trust anyone involved in it.

Officials explain MTN's withdrawal from Nigerian football, athletics
By Christian Okpara

MOBILE telecommunications outfit, MTN, which is one of the biggest sponsors of sports in most of the countries it operates in, has accused Nigerian sports officials of frustrating its efforts at trying to contribute to the growth of the sector.

The major sponsor of the 2010 World Cup also sponsors the CAF Nations Cup, as well as the Champions League. But apart from golf and polo tournaments, the company has little presence in the Nigerian sports circle. Speaking with journalists before the African Legends Football Challenge played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, over the weekend, MTN's General Manager, Consumer Marketing, Kola Oyeyemi, revealed that his company had tried several times to come into the mainstream of Nigerian sports only to be driven away by the attitude of those who run the sector.

"We stepped aside from Nigerian football because we have not found credible people to work with. It is unfortunate that those who run the game in Nigeria have different agenda from what we wanted to achieve. That is why we left Nigerian football for the European game, with the aim of bringing joy to majority of Nigerians," Oyeyemi alleged.

"Our sponsorship of the World Cup is to satisfy the aspirations of Nigerians; we will take some Nigerians to the World Cup. To ensure that we achieve our aim of bringing joy to many Nigerians through the World Cup, we will be heavy on television and radio broadcasts.

"Nigerians will also experience the pull of the World Cup through fans zones, where we will create avenues for football lovers to watch matches and activities around the World Cup on big screens."

On the FA Cup, which is open for sponsorship with the withdrawal of Coca-Cola from its sponsorship, Oyeyemi disclosed that MTN was speaking with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) with a view to bankrolling the competition. He added, however, that partnering the NFF was a very difficult thing for the company to do.

"We tried to work with the NFF in the past and we were wounded. The scars of that injury have not healed. You can imagine how one will feel after agreeing on a sponsorship with an organisation, deposited the cheques and all of a sudden the deal is cancelled because someone else came into the picture. That happened at the highest level of MTN leadership, so we don't want to go through that again," he said.

On athletics, Oyeyemi also revealed that MTN could not "continue working with people who do not understand the need to grow the sports they are managing," adding that the company would only go back to the sport when it is convinced that the people managing it are ready to adopt best practices in their activities.

"For now, we are into golf and polo sponsorship because golf appeals to our high networth customers, while polo is for our northern consumers," he said.

Sincerely I love the wonderful job Glo is doing with the league but what I actually do not like is the fact that they think they can do it alone; football is big business and it needs all the funds it can get; there is no limit to the amount of money needed. GLO and MTN can co-exist like others do in some advance league, even some things that doesn't exist in other league can be introduced here; it is not a crime if we become the first to do something innovative. The league alone can become the thickest, richest, and bigest league in Africa and middle-east; I challenge anyone who doubt me I can proof to anybody that the league has what it takes to make up to N5Billion every year, and even clubs can make as much as N2Billion yearly too.

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