Ratels Sports Development Foundation Set To Honour Arotile, Ukaigwe , Mabo, Jegede, Kujebola Others.
10/07/2021
Ratels Sports Development Foundation Set To Honour Arotile, Ukaigwe, Mabo, Jegede, Kujebola Others.
The award comes in two categories of Special Posthumous Awards and the Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile: The first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigeria Air Force. She contributed significantly to combat operations against insecurity in the northern states of Nigeria. Arotile died from a head injury sustained in an accident at the Nigerian Air Force base.Henrietta Ukaigwe: She was a veteran sports journalist cum women's football promoter. Started FFIG - Female Football Interest Group comprising individuals, who actively promoted and energetically projected the women's game and made it an item of consequence in the media and public space across the nation from the nineties.
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Heroic Icon Of The Year: Leah Shuiabu.
Women Football Promoter of the year: Phillip Shuiabu.
Women Football Trailblazer of the year: Aisha Falode.
Ratels Sports Development Foundation Heroes Awards: List Of Award Recipients Revealed.Names of Awardees for the Ratels Sports Development Foundation Heroes Awards 2021 was revealed during Flying Officers Cup draw ceremony held in Abuja on Thursday.
The award comes in two categories of Special Posthumous Awards and the Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile: The first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigeria Air Force. She contributed significantly to combat operations against insecurity in the northern states of Nigeria. Arotile died from a head injury sustained in an accident at the Nigerian Air Force base.Henrietta Ukaigwe: She was a veteran sports journalist cum women's football promoter. Started FFIG - Female Football Interest Group comprising individuals, who actively promoted and energetically projected the women's game and made it an item of consequence in the media and public space across the nation from the nineties.
This group did not only report the game; it coalesced efforts and resources to organize women's football tournaments and provided much-needed stout and meaningful support to administrators at that incipient stage.
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Heroic Icon Of The Year: Leah Shuiabu.
Women Football Promoter of the year: Phillip Shuiabu.
Women Football Grassroots Icon of the year: Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi.
Women Football Trailblazer of the year: Aisha Falode.