One of Nigeria’s finest media practitioners, Leadership Group Limited has launched the country’s first wholly golf magazine, Leadership Golf Digest as a token of her massive involvements in development of the sport and also to enlightening its professionals and spectators.
The magazine is an all-colour, all-glossy monthly publication, which hits the newsstands and available in print from this month and shall strive to amuse and educate golfers and non-golfers on the game of golf.
According to the publishers, the magazine will be honest and heartfelt as the stories will play well to the readers and shall be the golfers’ real companion as efforts have been geared towards getting it to the newsstand across the country.
“The magazine will equally circulate in some selected golf clubs abroad, major hotels, federal ministries, libraries, airports across the nation and to other hands largely by subscription,” the publishers said in a statement.
Tony Akhigbe, a Nigeria’s foremost golf writer who is trusted with its editorial duties, added that the magazine promises to deliver its audiences a first hand and the best in information and quality contents, by using its medium to further take the sport to a highest level in and across Nigeria.
“It will provide fresh insight into the game and serve as one vehicle that will drive the nation’s golf to the hearts of golfers across the globe,” Akhigbe added.
Gusau mourns Abia FA boss Chukwuemeka
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has described as ‘most shocking’ the death on Tuesday morning of the Chairman of Abia State Football Association, Sir Ephraim Chukwuemeka.
The respected former referee, who happened to be the longest-serving FA Chairman in the country, died on Tuesday morning in Umuahia, capital of Abia State.
“The NFF has this morning received the most shocking news about the death of Sir E. C. Chukwuemeka, who has for decades been an esteemed member of the NFF Congress. I spoke with him just over a week ago when he told me that his wife had a partial stroke. I had no idea it would be the last conversation between us.
“Sir Chukwuemeka represented the vintage old guard in the NFF Congress and blessed us all with his wisdom, deep knowledge and understanding of the game of football, its rules, its management and its intricacies. We will all miss him dearly. Our prayer is that Almighty God should grant him eternal rest and also empower those he has left behind, including his immediate family, friends and the Nigeria football fraternity, with the fortitude to bear the big loss,” Gusau said.