The next five to ten years will witness an increase in the remuneration of players and officials coupled with infrastructural development that will guarantee more revenue for the Nigerian league and increased viewership.
A strategic partner for the Nigeria Premier League, GTI Capital, has listed these and other interventions in the works for the next ten years.
Speaking at a Media Parley organised by its strategic partners, GTI Assets Management & Trust Limited, the Chairman of the IMC, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, revealed that GTI, through Nigeria Football Fund, has already injected the sum of N200 million as a takeoff grant for the ongoing season.
Elegbeleye also added that the intervention has helped to solve the payment of referees’ indemnities and other allowances.
In his presentation, the Project Director of GTI Assets Management & Trust Limited, Nelson Ine, explained that his firm’s partnership with the IMC a few months ago was already producing positive results.
Ine insisted that the projection is to build the business element from football that will be beneficial to all, as well as serve as a national asset that can have the capacity to generate revenue and contribute to Nigeria’s GDP as it is done in other climes.
Furthermore, the Interim Management Committee (IMC) revealed yesterday that the abridged Nigeria League (NPFL) winner would pocket a princely sum of N100 million.Â