Meet Your Naij.com Sportsmen/Women For The Year 2015

We asked Naij.com readers to vote for their men and women of the year in different sport segments. The results we got were astonishing.

 2015 was a great year in sports for Nigeria. Some of the highlights of the years are;

1. The National basketball team (D’Tigers) won Nigeria’s first continental title; Afrobasket 2015

2. The Golden Eaglets won a record breaking fifth FIFA U-17 World Cup title with the likes of Victor Osimhen and Kelechi Nwakali starring.

3. Nigeria produced Nigeria and Africa’s first world scrabble champions in Wellington Jigbere.

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To honour our great men and women, we asked Africans to vote for their different persons of the year in five different categories. Below are the nominees and winners (in bold).

Naij.com Sportsman of the year:
Odion Ighalo
Wellignton Jigbere
Tosin Oke
Gbolahan Salami

Sportswoman of the year:
Assisat Osholala
Oluwatobiloba Amusan
Uhunoma Osazuwa
Patience Okon George
Blessing Okagbare

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Sports administrator of the year:
NBBF President – Tijani Umar
AFN President – Solomon Ogba
DG – NSC – Alhassan Yakmut (Before Solomon Dalong came on board)

Best Coach of the year:
William Voigt (D’Tigers coach)
Emmanuel Amunike (U-17 Coach)
Kadiri Ikhana (Enyimba International coach)
Tony Konyegwachie (Boxing coach)

Newcomer of the year:
Victor Osimhen
Kelechi Nwakali
Oluwatobiloba Amusan

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