{"id":51269,"date":"2021-08-13T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=51269"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:44:43","slug":"firstbank-sponsors-the-5th-edition-of-the-chief-olusegun-obasanjo-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/firstbank-sponsors-the-5th-edition-of-the-chief-olusegun-obasanjo-golf-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstBank Sponsors The 5th Edition Of The Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Golf Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its sponsorship of the 5th edition of the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo golf tournament, organized by the Abeokuta golf club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">The competition, which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, 14th August 2021 will have Chief Obasanjo perform the ceremonial Tee-off to the glamour of the 150 golfers participating from across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">Speaking on the competition, Kola Adeneye, the Captain of the Abeokuta golf club, said; \u201cAbeokuta golf club is putting up this tournament, fully sponsored by First Bank of Nigeria Limited to celebrate Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, whom we all know to be an icon, a patriotic Nigerian and an entrepreneur. He is worthy to be celebrated and it\u2019s not only when somebody dies that you celebrate him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">\u201cSo, Abeokuta golf club has put this tournament together to celebrate him and this is the fifth edition and we want to sincerely thank FirstBank for the support\u2026 It\u2019s going to be a wonderful experience, a nice outing for golfers all over Nigeria to come and celebrate Baba Olusegun Obasanjo\u201d, the captain emphasised.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">Highlighting the Bank\u2019s contribution to sports development in Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Owolabi, FirstBank\u2019s Group Executive, Retail Banking (Lagos &amp; West) said \u201cwe are delighted to join The Abeokuta Golf Club to honour Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for the indelible roles he has played to the socio-economic and political development of the country. The Bank\u2019s influence in the development of sports in Nigeria is under its First@Sport initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653MsoNormal\">\u201cIn over a century, FirstBank has sponsored various sporting events known as its legacy sport. These events include the Georgian Cup of Kaduna Polo Club, for over 100 years; the Dala Tennis Hard Court in Kano Club for over 30 years; the FirstBank Lagos Amateur Open Golf Championship in Ikoyi Club which will be in its 60th year this November and the Obasanjo Pro-Amateur tournament of Abeokuta Club now in its 5th year\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5600125653ydp8d113253msonormal\">\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its sponsorship of the 5th edition of the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo golf tournament, organized by the Abeokuta golf club.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[8931,2018],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-51269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports","tag-chief-olusegun-obasanjo","tag-first-bank-of-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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