26th November, 2013
Football fans in Nigeria, Africa and other parts of the world have been told to watch out for a spectacular 2013 Glo-CAF Awards which will come up on 9 January in Lagos.
Telecommunications giant, Globacom and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), sponsor and organisers of the prestigious African Footballer of the Year Award gave this assurance at a joint press conference held in Lagos yesterday. They said that the awards ceremony will be unprecedented and spectacular in scope and scale.
Globacom was represented at the occasion by its National Sales Coordinator, Segun Adeyemo, while the Director of Media Division, Confederation of African Football, Mr. Junior Binyam, spoke on behalf of CAF.
According to Globacom, “the 2013 Glo-CAF Awards with the theme: Icons of Africa: Past, Present, Future, is aimed at honouring the legacy of the past, celebrating the icons of today and inspiring the icons of the future.”
Both Glo and CAF said attention has been paid to even the minutest of details to ensure the emergence of a credible winner through a very transparent process. They also pledged that the presentation ceremony, to be held at Eko Hotel & Suites, will be unprecedented in scale.