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Monday, September 1, 2014

NRFF rolls out date for Independence Sevens

THE Nigeria Rugby Football Federation has concluded plans to host this year's Independence Sevens after all necessary logistics towards a successful hosting of the tournament have been put in place.

Disclosing to National daily that over the week inside the mainbowl of the National Stadium, Surulere during the South West League, the Vice President who also doubles as the Technical.   
 Director of the federation, Tunji Fasimoye said “we are hosting the Independence Sevens which we held last year and it is an international invitational tournament.
Speaking further about the tournament, he experienced administrator disclosed that more innovations will be witnessed this year as a result of improvement on last year's tournament won by Police Rugby Football Club of Lagos.
“Last year, we had 4 teams from abroad in attendance for the tournament but this year we are looking at expanding to 5 to 6 teams”.
The annual 2 day rugby festival which started in  2009 will be held between the 10th and 11th of October at the Onikan Stadium.
He concluded that this is just one of the programmes endorsed by the Sir Edward Pam's led administration to expose club and national team players to the current global trends in the sport.
He said the Sevens tournament is a good platform for us to actually push and promote the sport here in Nigeria.
We hope that it will also give our indigenous players the opportunity to actually know more and learn more from the game.

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