Seven-time winner of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Rangers International football club of Enugu, on Tuesday confirmed the signing of a jersey sponsorship agreement with Afrinvest limited.
The contract which was signed at exactly 1:12pm cost fifty million and will span for one season 2023-2024 after which it would be renewed.
With this sponsorship in place, Afrinvest will offer high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and governments financial advising services as well as capital raising.
After the agreement was signed, the Group Managing Director of Afrinvest West Africa, Prince Ike Chioke expressed gratitude to the government and people of Enugu state saying…“As a boy born in Enugu and as someone who has supported the state for many years i am particularly delighted. This partnership isn’t just for Afrinvest and the branding partnership for Rangers.
“What it is, is about the players, about the opportunity to uplift a group of football talents who can in turn become the beckon of hope and restoration for many other young talents
“The reason is, if you think about our country today and all the challenges we face, insecurity, poverty, high cost of electricity, petrol and people trying to leave the country in search of greener pastures, what we are trying to do is really to say since not everyone can be a politician, not everyone can be a musician and then not everyone can go to Nollywood not even everyone wishes to leave the country and (japa) like they say, we need to begin to help ourselves.
“If we can help a group of different Nigerians who happen to play for Rangers to excell and become professionals and hopefully rise to international standards, they too will in turn help other young talents and show them that there is value and pride in doing things professionally. We are wholeheartedly committed to Rangers
“Rangers is an embodiment of excellence and we need to continue to foster that. So a victory for Rangers is a victory for all of us, victory for our human capacity to succeed”. Chioke stated.
Meanwhile, the Enugu state Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Lloyd Ekweremadu who signed the deal on behalf of the state government, said what they have today is a renaissance of Rangers football club.
“You have a new management and also new set of players. So what we have now is a new Rangers which the people of Enugu can call their own and be proud of.
“So from what his Excellency the Governor has in mind, Rangers would now be run like any other football club in the top flight leagues in the world, just the way Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Paris Saint German were being run and organized.
It is expected that at the end of this season, Rangers International will be hoping to be one of the championship contenders and compete for a CAF continental ticket”. The commissioner said.
Rangers last participated in CAF Inter-club tournaments in 2019.
The signing was witnesses by officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), as ex-Rangers players, Christian Chukwu, Emmanuel Okala, and Davison Owumi amongst others.
