Minna Bago polo team wins best debutants award at Jos festival
One of the major highlights of the just concluded 2024/2025 Jos polo fiesta that saw Murtala Laushi and his top firing miners extend their supremacy to a record sixth Governor’s Cup title, was the impressive debut of the Niger Foods powered Minna Bago team that finished as the best Debutants of the tournament. The Minna […]
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One of the major highlights of the just concluded 2024/2025 Jos polo fiesta that saw Murtala Laushi and his top firing miners extend their supremacy to a record sixth Governor’s Cup title, was the impressive debut of the Niger Foods powered Minna Bago team that finished as the best Debutants of the tournament.
The Minna polo warriors loaded with experienced Minna-based polo big names like Ahmed Salisu, Jamilu Kings and Aminu Bahago, were the cynosure of the tournament as they filed out in their Minna Bago team colours throughout their games during the weeklong polo fiesta.
Empowered by Niger Foods and motivated to bring top honours to the state, the Bago big Boys who competed for the crowded President Cup series that pitted over tens teams from across the country, finished on high, winning the Best Debutants team award of the international polo that thrilled from December 28, 2024 to January 2, 2025.
The emergence of the Bago polo team as the best debutants propelled their counterparts, Minna Profile team, to go all out to clinch the President Cup, their first major polo title in the glamorous Jos polo festival.
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The impressive campaign of the Minna polo contingent during the fiesta was crowned on the final day when Team Bago Captain, Ahmed Salisu won election into the National Executive Committee as the Assistant Treasurers of the Nigerian Polo Federation (NPF).
As the popularity of the noble game of kings spread across Niger State, the State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has disclosed that his administration will construct a more befitting polo field in the State to enhance the sport.