The prestigious 2024 Access Bank UNICEF Charity Shield polo tourney climaxed in a cliff-hanging triumph for Kaduna 5th Chukker, Jos Crown Polo, Katsina Mangal Cement, and Kaduna Barbedos teams as they emerged champions, winning the Herbert Wigwe Memorial Cup, Charity Shield, Access Bank Cup, UNICEF Cup, and Usman Dantata Cup respectively.
The tournament consisted of over twenty-five teams with players coming from as far as Argentina and South Africa and top Nigerian players saw four great finals in the low, medium, intermediate, and high-goal categories.
All the fiercely contested finals ended with narrow victories, with the Kaduna Fifth Chukker team performing an incredible feat, sweeping home the Charity Shield and the newly inaugurated Herbert Wigwe Memorial Cup played in honour of the late GMD of Access Bank Group.
The Crown Polo team edged out the Access Bank team in the final to clinch the Access Bank Cup, just as Mangal Cement team came from behind to snatch the UNICEF Cup from MSR/Bua side one of the biggest upsets of the tourney.
A ten million Naira additional cash donation by Access Bank, the commissioning of the multibillion Naira 60 classrooms Charity Shield funded Maraban Jos Primary School by Kaduna State Governor, His Excellency Senator Uba Sani were some of the major highlights of the prestigious polo fiesta.
Governor Sani who also performed the groundbreaking for another 6o classrooms school complex urged parents to make good use of the ultra-modern educational facility targeted at removing millions of out-of-school children from the streets to a brighter future.
“I call on parents particularly mothers, to stop their children from street trading, begging and other exploitative vices in the rural and urban areas across the state and their education in this school funded by the Charity Shield Polo platform partners,” he pleaded as the Give Project unveiled a new set of uniforms for the pupils.
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