By Amaechi Agbo
Ahead of the commencement of the 2017/18 Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL, the Champions Shield, which serves as the curtain raiser for the league has been fixed to hold on Sunday, March 4, 2018.
The match will hold between the 2016/17 NWFL champions, Nasarawa Amazon and Aiteo female Cup champions, Rivers United.
NWFL Chief Operating Officer, Ayo Abdulrahaman, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview said that since his emergence as the COO of the NWFL, the issue of players transfer have stopped as the league has been repositioned to checkmate such abnormalities.
“The NWFL league will likely start in March and that is why we are having our congress on March 3rd. after that, we play our 2018 Champion Shield where the winner of the league and the Aiteo Cup winner will slug it out to determine the champion of 2016/2017 league season. The Champion Shield will take place on 4th March in Lagos.
“Since I came into women league, we have not experienced transfer issues. The first assignment I addressed when I resumed work was the issue of player transfer and you can talk to the clubs to verify. The era of players moving from one club to the other indiscriminately and at their own volition has stopped. This is my second season in the women league and most of the efforts we are putting in, even with the coming of the new board, is to reposition the league and the efforts are yielding fruits because players now know that they have a contract with their teams and the teams know that they have agreement and contracts with their players unlike before,” he stated.
