Miss Football Nigeria, new beauty pageantry targeted at getting more support for local leagues as against foreign ones has been launched in Nigeria. The pageantry officially called Queen Of Nigeria Football is an initiative by Miss Football Nigeria with a focus on beauty, football, entertainment, and youth empowerment.
According to the National Director, Media and Publicity Mr Gambo Jagindi, the event targets on the long run to change the attention of about 80 million Nigerian football lovers to patronize local leagues.
According to Jagindi, Nigeria was yet to harness the potential it had from her football-loving populace, saying that the over patronage for foreign leagues was costing the nation so many resources.
“Football has become one of the top three Global Sports Commanding Hundreds of Millions of addicted Fans and Followers in more than Two Third of the Countries of the World combined.
“In Nigeria, the addiction is so strong that Football is, as it stands today, the only unifying factor that dismantles the barriers of Ethnicity, Religion, Class or Political Divide. It knows no age limitation in terms of passion and viewership.
Reliable research findings show that, out of the about 200,000,000 Nigerians, over 80,000,000, accounting for over 40% of the Population, are passionate followers of Football.
“Unfortunately, here in Nigeria, much has not been achieved in taking positive advantage of the huge demography and attendant addiction for football by the youths and young people to promote National Development, Job and Wealth Creation.
“Miss Football Nigeria Project has been carefully developed and recently rebranded to deliberately sensitize and mobilize the Nigerian Youth and Young Persons towards participating and investing in our local football as a means of recreation, entertainment and as well as a viable stream of income,” he said.
