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LIS 2022 Conference: Three women athletes, Alimosho Ladies receive grants

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By Saheed Afolabi

 

The Organisers of the Ladies In Sports International Conference (LIS) on Thursday gave sports grants of Two Hundred Thousand Naira each to three young women athletes and a football team, Alimosho Ladies at the 2022 Edition held at the Eko Hotels And Suites.

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Among the recipients of the grants are Imo Strikers Star, Harmony Achiefula, whose goalscoring prowess was the talk of the town in the NWFL Nationwide League, Stella Ayankele, currently, the best home-based 100m hurdler and reigning Nigeria University Games (NUGA) champion, Temitope Adesina, the reigning National Sports Festival champion in high jump, and Alimosho Football Club, who will be Nigeria’s sole representative at the Neymar Cup that will be taking place in Qatar.

In line with the theme of this year’s event, LIS founder Tega Onojaife said the LIS Conference will also be taking the next steps in subsequent editions as more days and programmes will be added to the event to cover different areas of sports.

The LIS 2022 Conference was powered by MTN, IHS, Stanbic IBTC, Smooth 98.1FM and Integral

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