Malcomines, Crown club, others win top prizes at Jos Polo tourney

Six-time champions, Malcomines led others as top winners of the just concluded 2024/2025 Jos international polo tournament just as Nigerian polo supremo, Framcis Ogboro, was unanimously elected for another tenure as the President Nigerian Polo Federation (NPF).

Murtala Laushi and his top firing miners extended their supremacy to a record sixth Governor’s Cup title.

Other winners of the weeklong polo festival that started with a charity event on December 25, 2024 include Crown Polo Resort team winners of Imani Cup, Katsina Aldusar team that emerged NASCO Cup champions and Minna Profile team that clinched the President Cup.

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“It is worthy to note that the game of Polo has for several decades now maintained its pre-eminent position as the leading catalyst for sports, recreation, peace and tourism in Plateau State and Nigeria at large”, declared Jos Polo President, Murtala Laushi in his closing remarks

Meanwhile, Ogboro who has led the polo federation for decades has pledged to re-double his effort in promoting Nigerian polo within the continent and internationally following his victory at the Bi-annual Conference of NPF held in Jos.

He said the Nigeria polo is one big family that will continue to put Nigeria in the international limelight.

Ogboro also thanked the Nigerian polo family for the confidence reposed in him to lead the federation, and said that his relentless crusade of expanding the frontiers of Nigerian polo would be sustained in a way that would truly reflect Nigeria’s status as a power house of African polo.

“The last few years were a period that started with a lot of questions about the future of NPF and Nigerian polo. Along the way, we became a greater voice in polo and built credibility with our members,” he noted.

Ogboro leads the National Executive Committee that include Tanko Ayuba (1st Vice President), Abdulkarim Jibril (2nd Vice President) Murtala Laushi (Secretary), Haruna Ningi (Assistant Secretary), Usman Sa’ad (Treasurer) Ahmed Salisu Assistant Treasurer) and Barrister Sambo Shehu (Legal Adviser).

The duo of Hassan Gashash and Mohammed Baba complete the list of the new executive committee that will run the affairs of the sport federation till 2027.