No fewer than 400 schools, comprising boys and girls teams will be participating in this year’s GTBank Lagos Principals Cup tournament kicking off this week.

The tournament, the 8th in the series, is aimed at engaging the students through sports and also creating an avenue for the discovery of young talented footballers for the future.

Speaking at the pre-tournament press conference Friday, a top official of GTBank, Oyinade Adegite said, apart from helping in identifying and nurturing budding talents, “the competition also promotes the core values of excellence and competition in the participating students.”

The Managing Director of the bank, Segun Agbaje recalled that “this tournament has helped participating students to actualising their dreams of becoming professional footballers and some of them have made a career out of football.”

He mentioned NPFL top scorer, Steven Odey of MFM FC of Lagos as one of the products of the GTBank Lagos Principals Cup. He was the MVP of the 2012 edition.

Cheques to the tunes of N1m, N750,000, and N500,000 were presented to first, second and third place winners of last year’s edition in both boys and girls categories. The fourth placed teams received N250,000 each.

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Great initiative.
8th year running.
Wow!!!

OK way my boot.

nice move by Gtb as this will motivate the young ones.

Well done GT Bank.

great move, but must it be soccer all the time?

#positivevibes

Diff sporting tournaments like this not only football, if organised and sponsored by corporate Nig for primary to secondary schools in diff states across the country will keep many kids busy year round thereby reducing the number of kids prone to crime and channelling their energy mind to future careers.
Way to go GTB.

what happen to the shell cup being played by secondary schools in Nigeria in tge 80s and 90s..Are they still playing that competition?..i remember watching my school loss to another school in lagos..it was very painful, must of us school miss school the next day because of the loss.

Good

If na bb naija now somebody go come dey talk lubbish

Back in the days, it was shell cup

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