Base College Wins NAPPS Football Competition

Base Comprehensive College, Borikiri, Port Harcourt on Monday emerged winners of the maiden edition of the Rivers State branch of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPs, Town unit football competition tagged NAPPs Town Unit Football Cup 2010.

The school defeated Wisdom Child International School 1-0 in a keenly contested final match decided at the Police Children’s’ School field, Port Harcourt.

A first half long range goal was enough to secure victory for the Base College boys, who dominated proceedings.

Earlier at the same venue, God First Acadamy had routed Iverok School 5-1 in the third place match to emerge their place winners.

It was a match that threw up 18-year-old Robinson Emmanuel of God First Academy as a talent with great potentials to go far in the game.

His performance was responsible for his school’s comeback from one goal down to 5-1 victory in the match.

Speaking at the end of the competition, chairman of the final event, Mr. Honour Sirawoo, who is also the chairman of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Rivers State branch, commended organisers of the competition for promoting sports in private schools.

According to him, the event showed that the private schools in the state were organised.

Sirawoo described sports as an effective tool for development and unity and urged on schools which did not do too well to prepare well for subsequent editions.

He expressed satisfaction with the level of potentials in the players. He further pledged to ensure that SWAN would partner with NAPPs to promote and improve subsequent editions.

On his part the chairman of NAPPs, Town unit, Chief Victor Green, J.P promised that the competition would be an annual event and that the next edition would be better.

He called on school proprietors to take sports seriously in their schools.

The first three placed schools went home with Silver trophies, while individual award winners were master Walter from Werock School-highest goal scorer, Eteka Akwu of Base Comprehensive School-most valuable player, MVP and Glorious nagnification school team, the best behaved team of the competition.