Governor Wike Reveals Huge Amount Entitled to Each Rivers United Player for Winning NPFL Title

• Rivers United on Sunday evening, 17 July, emerged as the new champions of the Nigerian Professional Football League
• Chijioke Akuneto scored the only goal that gave Rivers United a 1-0 win over Gombe United in last game of the season
• Rivers State Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike was present and gave each Rivers United players one million naira

Akwa United were on Sunday evening, 17 July, dethroned as Nigerian champions as Rivers United emerged as new winners after beating visiting Gombe United 1-0 on the last day of the season.

The 2021/22 Nigerian Professional Football League season has ended with Rivers United finishing first on the table, while Plateau United settled for second as Remo Stars of Ikenne came third.

This means that Rivers United and Plateau United will represent Nigeria later this year in the CAF Champions League, while Remo Stars will play in the CAF Confederations Cup.

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The Aieto Cup will start in August this year and whoever emerge as winners will join Remo Stars as the two Nigerian clubs to play in the CAF Confederations Cup.

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Chijioke Akuneto scored the only goal that gave Rivers United the win over Gombe United in the 11th minute and ended up as leading scorer with 19 goals.

According to the reports by LMC and Sporting Life, Governor Wike of Rivers State splashed one million naira each on each player of Rivers United for winning the League title.

The Governor was also present at the stadium to celebrate the victory with Rivers United.

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Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Nigerian international Victor Osimhen moved to Italian club Napoli in the summer of 2020 has now been ranked as the fifth most expensive African player.

The transfer of the Nigerian international from French club Lille to the Italian outfit has been ranked as the 81st most expensive transfer of all time.

GOAL has compiled the 100 most expensive football transfers of all time and the 23-year-old Nigerian made the shortlist.

Ivorian forward Nicolas Pepe who joined Arsenal from Lille for €79m is the most expensive African player followed by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who also joined Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund for €63.75m.