Nigeria’s Winter Olympics Bobsled/skeleton Team Gets Travelstart, KLM Support
TRAVELSTART Nigeria and KLM Royal Dutch Airline are the latest firms supporting Nigeria’s Bobsled and Skeleton Federation’s quest to excel at the Winter Olympics slated for Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25.
The Nigerian quartet of Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, Akuoma Omeoga and Simidele Adeagbon will adorn the nation’s green white green shirt at the games, the country’s first appearance in the competition.
Yesterday in Lagos, Travelstart Nigeria and KLM Royal Dutch Airline hosted the team, where it revealed that the partnership to identify with the achievement of the team, as well as its deep commitment to progress in Africa. The firms added that the full team would be flown from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos through Amsterdam to Incheon Airport in Seoul, South Africa.
An excited Country Manager of Travelstart Nigeria, Mr. Philip Akesson said they decided to share in the team’s resilience, passion and determination to excel in the sport.
“As Africa’s largest online travel agency, we are excited to use our partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to get the Nigerian team to their first Winter Olympics. The team’s resilience, passion, go-getter attitude towards achieving their goals is admirable, and is a message that resonates very deeply with our company values,” Akesson said.
In his statement, the General Manager, Air France KLM Nigeria and Ghana, Mr. Michel Colleau, said, “At KLM we are always looking for ways to be innovative, we care about our customers and we are also interested in supporting the countries we fly to. The Nigerian Bosled and Skeleton team are a group of young ladies who are innovative, dynamic, ambitious, pacesetters, and resilient.
SUPER Eagles’ defender, Leon Balogun and his Mainz 05 colleagues will have their hands full when German football giants, Bayern Munich come calling this afternoon. The match at the Coface Arena is one of this weekend’s games in the Bundesliga scheduled for broadcast by Startimes on Channels
NIGERIAN Breweries Plc has applauded the feat of the home-based Super Eagles in reaching the final of the on-going fifth African Nations Championship in Morocco. It says the performance has justified its decision to invest in Nigerian football. The Super Eagles have 254 and 245.
Bayern Munich is currently dominating the league table with 50 points from 20 matches and it has the chance to extend its lead at the top of the Bundesliga table to 53 points when it visits Mainz05 that is just three points clear of the relegation play-off position on the back of a 2-0 loss at shown remarkable strong spirit in the campaign so far, including overcoming certain disadvantages in their semifinal defeat of Sudan on Wednesday. They file out against host nation, Morocco, in the final at the Stade Mohamed V in Casablanca tomorrow. Bayern Leverkusen
The Head coach of Mainz 05, Sandro Schwarz has no new injury concerns from the side that played in Leverkusen and may opt for the same starting XI against the champions. Mainz has a decent record against the record champions of late, but not at home where it is without a win in five. “The resilience and resoluteness of the Super Eagles in the African Nations Championship tally with the solidity of Nigerian Breweries as an establishment, and we are happy to identify with them and indeed all the National Teams of Nigeria.