{"id":4521,"date":"2023-11-26T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/26\/2023-nigeria-volleyball-premier-league-champions-crowned\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:43:35","slug":"2023-nigeria-volleyball-premier-league-champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/26\/2023-nigeria-volleyball-premier-league-champions-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League champions crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Offa Volleyball Club and Chief of Naval Staff have been crowned champions of the 2023 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories respectively. SportsRation reports.<\/p>\n

To emerge champions, Offa VC defeated Nigeria Security And Civil Defense (NSCDC) 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-19, 25-17) in a keenly contested men\u2019s final match while CNS female team came from behind to beat Nigeria Security And Civil Defense NSCDC team 3-1 (18-25, 25-19, 25-18, 25-17).<\/p>\n

Both matches were played at the indoor hall of Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.<\/p>\n

For the third position, the COAS Spiker Female team defeated Kwara United 3-0 (25-7, 25-8, 25-21) in the final Phase of Nigeria Volleyball Premier League on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

CNS Spikers won the 2022 National Division 1 Volleyball League unbeaten and have been crowned champions of the 2023 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the match, the coordinator of CNS Spikers volleyball team, Commodore Mohammed Muye expressed delight in the victory of the team in her first attempt at the premier league title.<\/p>\n

Commodore Muye revealed that CNS Spikers had the intention of shocking premier league teams immediately they qualified from the National Division 1 Volleyball League.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe team came from the National Division 1 Volleyball League to win the 2023 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League and I am happy our dream became a reality; the girls did it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are grateful to the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla for his support for the team, he is the brain behind this success.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that CNS Spikers women\u2019s team have won the league, we have the ticket to represent the country at the continental championship next year,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Patron of CNS Spikers, Commodore Aliyu Pindar (RTD) commended the players for their relentless spirit and coming from a set down to win.<\/p>\n

Pindar said, \u201cIt gives me great joy that a club less than three years have emerged champions of the women\u2019s volleyball premier league. If you look at the crop of players paraded by CNS Spikers, they are young players who have trained together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to commend the Chief of Naval Staff for supporting the teams. The world should watch out for the men\u2019s team as they play in next year\u2019s Nigeria Volleyball Premier League\u201d.<\/p>\n

After the back to back victory, the head Coach of Offa Volleyball Club, Suleiman Ajeigbe dedicated the trophy to the members of the Offa community in Kwara State for their total support and the good people in the Harmony State.<\/p>\n

He applauded the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for his support in ensuring the team remains in the topflight league.<\/p>\n

Ajeigbe appealed to philanthropists in the state as well as private organisations to support the club ahead of next year\u2019s African Club Championship.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Offa Volleyball Club and Chief of Naval Staff have been crowned champions of the 2023 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories respectively. SportsRation reports. To emerge champions, Offa VC defeated Nigeria Security And Civil Defense (NSCDC) 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-19, 25-17) in a keenly contested men\u2019s final match while CNS female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}