The Quarter Finals of the GTBank – Lagos State Principals
Cup - Season 6 “Smash all Barriers”, kicks off on Monday the 23rd February,
2015 at the Agege Stadium, Lagos with 16 Lagos state secondary schools
competing for the cup in both the male and female categories.
The prestigious secondary school football tournament,
currently in its 6th season, is an annual football competition geared towards
the development of grassroots football, the discovery of young football talents
and fostering camaraderie amongst secondary school students. It also provides a
platform for identifying, nurturing, grooming young and talented players as
well as helping students actualize their dream of becoming professional
footballers.
This stage of the competition promises to be very exciting
as schools that made it to the semi-final stage of the competition in the last
year’s edition are still in contention and intend to slug it out to retain
their title whilst the other schools will be gunning for glory. The schools
contesting at the quarter final stage include: Ikorodu Senior Grammar School,
Ikorodu, Iju Senior Grammar School, Iju, Dr. Lucas Memorial College, Kirikiri,
Keke High School, Ijaye, Isolo Senior High School, Isolo, Birrel Avenue Senior
High School, Sabo, Ifako Compehensive Senior Secondary School, Ifako and Dairy
Farm Senior Secondary School, Agege for the male category.
The quarter finalist in the female Category are; CMS Girls
Senior Secondary School, Bariga, Girls Senior High School, Agege, Alakoto
Senior High School, Ajegunle, Ikotun Senior High School, Ikotun, Government.
Senior College, Agege, Ilado Community High School, Ikoyi, Queen’s College,
Yaba and Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu.
The star prize of N1,000,000 will be won by the winning male
and female teams while the 1st, 2nd, 3rd runners up will receive N750,000,
N500,000 and N250,000 respectively. GTBank will also upgrade the existing
sports infrastructure in all participating schools as well football sporting
equipment’s such as football goal posts nets, balls and corner flags for
schools throughout the duration of the competition.
Commenting on the tournament, Segun Agbaje, Managing
Director, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, stated that “over the years this tournament
has helped participating students work towards actualizing their dream of
becoming professional footballers and some of them are already making a career
out of football. It has also helped them grow in personal confidence and become
better team players”. “GTBank will continue to invest massively in youth
development through education and sports”, he added.
The Bank compliments the Principals Cup tournament with an
annual residential coaching programme known as “Camp GTBank”. Camp GTBank is a
football developmental programme designed to discover, sharpen and cultivate
the skills of outstanding talents of the GTBank Lagos State Principals Cup and
Master’s Cup, drawing on the experience of top coaches from European clubs.
Guaranty Trust Bank plc is one of the few Nigerian financial
institutions that have maintained a defined Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) strategy since its inception in 1990. The Bank actively supports
in-classroom and out-of-classroom educational programmes, infrastructure
development, scholarship and teachers training across Africa.
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