Paralympic Gold Medalist EJIKE LUCY is the SportsWoman of the year in 5th Edition Of The Nigerian Sports Award: See Full List Of Winners (PHOTOS)

The 5th edition of the Nigerian Sports Award has come and gone but would be remembered for a long time to come because of the glitz and glamour and the attendance by personalities from all parts of the country. Dignitaries were in no small amount present at the award ceremony.

Right from the beginning when nominations opened, it was clear that each categories will be keenly contested though the categories are not as many as previous years owing to the general performance of Nigerian sports in 2016.

A major high point of the night is the special recognition award dubbed #FirstSportingHeroes, where people who made Nigeria proud long time ago were recognized for their outstanding performances even till as far back as 1985.

Below are the list of winners of the awards in each categories and that of the special recognition also;

COACH OF THE YEAR 2016 – ARE FEYISETAN (Nigeria’s Powerlifting Coach)
FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR (MEN) 2016 – CHISOM EGBUCHULAM (Rangers International FC)
TEAM OF THE YEAR 2016 – RANGERS INTERNATIONAL FC (Winner, Nigerian Professional Football League)
SPECIAL SPORTS PERSON OF THE YEAR (MEN) 2016 – KEHINDE PAUL (Powerlifting)
SPECIAL SPORTS PERSON OF THE YEAR (WOMEN) 2016 – EJIKE LUCY (Powerlifting)
SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR 2016 – EJIKE LUCY (Powerlifting)
SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR 2016 – KEHINDE PAUL (Powerlifting)
SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (TELEVISION) 2016 – MOZEZ PRAIZ (SuperSports)
SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (RADIO) 2016 – OLAWALE ADIGUN (Top radio)
SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (PRINT) 2016 – OLALEKAN OKUSAN (The Nation)
PHOTO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2016 – AYODELE OJO (The Sun)


The special recognition awards are as follows;

League Management Company was given a Special Recognition Award


For the #FirstSportingHereos

-Joseph Yobo was given an award for being the first male footballer to attain 100 caps
-Maureen Mmadu was given an award for being the first Nigerian footballer to attain 100 caps
-Nduka Ugbade and 1985 golden eaglets were given an award for being the first Nigerian team to win a FIFA tournament
-Dream Team IV were given an award for being the first Nigerian team to win Olympic gold in football
-Sprint quartet were awarded for being the first Nigerian team to win gold in sprint at the Olympics (Sydney 2000)


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Lalasticlala come and see More photos from last night..

Photo 1 : SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR 2016 – KEHINDE PAUL (Powerlifting)
Photo 2: SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR 2016 – EJIKE LUCY (Powerlifting)
Photo 3: The famous and world record ball juggler, Chinedu
Photo 4: Sound Sultan rounding off a wonderful night with an awesome rendition "BODMAS"

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Good

Hmmmmmm

Thank God for them

Nigeria Sports Award needs more publicity. And the venue though- looks like a tin of sardine (everything jam packed)

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Hope there is still one award left for our Desire Oparanozie, the scorer of today's winning goal

ylaa:
Again? where my name?
I won't agree this time.

madam pardon my asking....please who you help...i mean who you help,are you a paralympian or what......

Congratulations to the winners. Hope 2017 has good fortunes for Nigeria in 2017...

Nice one.

Hmm i guy is dey

My dearest cousin, Josephine Orji, a powerlifter that broke world record at the 2016 Rio Paralympics was nominated for "Sportswoman of the year" award. Though she she didn't win, we are still so proud of her.

Am happy for wale adigun

U r pardoned
Ask me again.

quote author=peterswagg post=51610175]madam pardon my asking....please who you help...i mean who you help,are you a paralympian or what......[/quote]

Ijaya 1 of Topradio . Congratulations!

SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (RADIO) 2016 – OLAWALE ADIGUN (Top radio)

Enjoyed my dear colleagues; Charles and Juliet. So happy for Juliet especially. Two thumbs up.

lol.....I am happy for Wale adigun. Top radio crew will really be in an ectasy mood. it's so surprising that the team leader of Wale crew did not win anything. I actually meant Godwin.

Congrats to other winners. You worked for it,so it's time to celebrate

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Shout out to Olawale omo Adigun, the president Bachelor association of Nigeria, the sky is your starting point, may God continue to reward your hustle,always giving us the best in the world of sport everyday, and also those tips that makes us smile to the bank. Yomi kazeem, that guy too from equatorial Guinea and the Madrid fan too, may God bless you all

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What of national team players? no awards for them?

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...and the award for the best sports minister for the century goes to no other person than



















Solomon dalung

Has anybody asked themselves why the hausa/fulani dont ever get special recognition for anything positive both local and international,check out lists of people making Naija proud,its always Igbo or Yoruba,yet these people have been ruling us since forever

am not hating,just sayin my mind

Congratulations to the winners. God bless Nigeria.

AnyibestDede:
Am happy for wale adigun

no be only u bro me see join he is too real for me oooo gud sport analysis

Why wasn't Bet9ja qiven the best sport betting of the year?? And why is it category not among anyway?? Hmm,I smell corruption

Nice one. I thought Murphy Jemba would have won one of the awards.