{"id":5534,"date":"2011-12-04T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/nigeria-mtn-set-to-be-new-premier-league-sponsors\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T08:29:47","slug":"nigeria-mtn-set-to-be-new-premier-league-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/04\/nigeria-mtn-set-to-be-new-premier-league-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: MTN Set to Be New Premier League Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Odeyemi<\/p>\n<p>2 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Telecommunications Company, MTN, are set to be named the new sponsors of the Nigeria Premier League in a four-year deal said to be worth around N2.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Nigeria Premier League board announced that it &#8216;has signed a four-year Title Right Sponsorship with Total Promotions Limited (TPL)&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Total Promotions, representing MTN, won a bid for the title sponsorship ahead of former sponsors Globacom.<\/p>\n<p>But the deal failed to see the light of day as Globacom headed to the courts in protest.<\/p>\n<p>That legal tussle stalled a formal signing ceremony, with even the NFF calling for a fresh bid process.<\/p>\n<p>But the NPL dug their heels in, and after fighting out a long battle for its leadership, have now ratified the deal with Total Promotions. Sent from my BlackBerry\u00c2\u00ae wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Joshua Odeyemi 2 December 2011 Telecommunications Company, MTN, are set to be named the new sponsors of the Nigeria Premier League in a four-year deal said to be worth around N2.6 billion. On Thursday, the Nigeria Premier League board announced that it &#8216;has signed a four-year Title Right Sponsorship with Total Promotions Limited (TPL)&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: MTN Set to Be New Premier League Sponsors - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/04\/nigeria-mtn-set-to-be-new-premier-league-sponsors\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: MTN Set to Be New Premier League Sponsors - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Joshua Odeyemi 2 December 2011 Telecommunications Company, MTN, are set to be named the new sponsors of the Nigeria Premier League in a four-year deal said to be worth around N2.6 billion. 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