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Chief Executive Officer of First Bank Group, Olusegun Alebiosu, has reiterated the bank’s commitment to the development of sports in Nigeria.
Alebiosu made the declaration at the First Bank’s sponsored Python Amateur Golf Open Championship, in Port-Harcourt, which attracted 300 players from within and outside the country.
Speaking at the Port Harcourt Golf Course, he said: “At First Bank, we support sports across the country. Today is about golf, next week Sunday, it will be about Polo in Kaduna. We have been doing that for over a century.
“In November we are going to see Golf in Lagos specifically that is about on the 20th November where we are doing the 65th edition of our golf tournament in Lagos. It is called Lagos Open, players come all over the world to come and play in Lagos Open”.
He underscored the bank’s commitment to supporting sports development in the country emphasizing the importance of sports in nation-building and societal development.
Apart from golf, Alebiosu said the bank is also sponsoring other sporting events such as football, basketball, tennis and polo.
Chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), Dr Raphael Onoshakpo, said the Port Harcourt Open was a seven-day competition produced winners.
He revealed that the Python Golf Club has become a major hub for golfing, with a full training facility that has churned out over 200 new golfers in the past.
