A LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT Attention President Mohammadu BuhariNigeria @60.

A LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT

Attention President Mohammadu BuhariNigeria @60, the need to recognize 10 deserving sports administratorsThe Nigeria sports mouthpiece is a leading sports online platform, renowned for it's many successes in sports journalism, sports promotion and sports branding.

As part of our corporate responsibility of always informing the public about the latest sports news making the rounds, we also feel, we have the duty of identifying deserving sports men and women who have invested their money into promoting sports in no small measures. We have also identified those who have excelled in their chosen fields as outstanding personalities worthy of recognition and acceptance. On this auspicious occasion of Nigeria 60th anniversary celebration, we have carefully nominated the following individuals for consideration for national awards. These individuals were selected from a poll conducted on the NSM website. After the poll which had over 22,000 Nigerians participating, the following ten sports icons emerged as Nigeria's most outstanding sports personalities deserving of national recognition.

I. MR KUNLE SONAME.

Kunle Soname is a Nigerian politician, entrepreneur, sport enthusiast and the chairman of Bet9ja, a betting website he founded in 2013.

He is also the first Nigerian to acquire a European club C.D. Feirense of Portugal a club he bought in 2015.

Over time, Bet9ja has been one of the hottest online gambling innovations in Nigeria.

Bet9ja has become an household name in Nigeria and a leading brand in the Nigerian sport betting(gambling) industry.

In 2017, Bet9ja signed a 200 Million Naira sponsorship agreement with Nigeria National football league NNL, which is the second tire league of Nigeria football. They also sponsored other major sporting events like the annual Remo Marathon, the Bet9ja table tennis champiobship, the basketball championship, the ogun youth league among others. The chairman and owner of Bet9ja, is also the founder and owner of Remo stars football club of Abeokuta, a club that is currently in the Nigeria National league. For all his efforts, Mr Kunle Soname, deserves to be appreciated for his selfless service to humanity as he is one of the biggest employers of labour in the South West with over 500 workers presently working and receiving salary on a monthly basis under his watch, this ICON OF OUR TIME deserves to be celebrated for his service to humanity