- Offa Poly wins male football event
The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has emerged champions of Nigerian Polytechnics Games (NIPOGA) after topping the medals table with 29 gold, 15 silver and nine bronze.
The event tagged ‘Ijakadi 2024’ was hosted by the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara State.
In a statement, Chairman NIPOGA Sub-Committee on Media, Dr. (Mrs) Oluwakemi Ogungbamigbe, said that Yaba College of Technology, Lagos came second with 15 gold, nine silver and 20 bronze medals while Federal Polytechnic, Offa came third with 13 gold,15 silver and 26 bronze.
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According to Dr Ogungbamigbe, include The Polytechnic, Ibadan with 11 gold, 11silver and 15 bronze clinched the fourth position while Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade had eight gold, three silver and four bronze to come fifth.
She said that the ‘week-long sports fiesta ended remarkably with astonishing final matches in the football events’ between the Federal Polytechnic Offa and Federal Polytechnic Nekede for the male category and Federal Polytechnic Offa tackling against Yaba College of Technology in the female Category.
“The keenly contested matches favoured the Federal Polytechnic Offa with 1-0 straight winning against Federal Polytechnic Nekede to emerged winner of NIPOGA for the first time in history while the Federal Polytechnic Offa female team lost to Yabatech in penalty shootout.
“Auchi Polytechnic won the third place at the expense of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi in the male category while Sapade Polytechnic bagged third position in female football.”