NOGIG 2016 – The Grand Finale

As promised, here is the update to my last post.  Enjoy!  For those who missed the part 1 this post, check it out here.

The closing ceremony of the NOGIG 2016 held on Saturday, March 5, 2016.  The day started with a heavy downpour in the city of Lagos and I was a tad worried that it would rain the whole day.  At last my fears were unwarranted as by 9.00am the clouds had cleared and I was happily practicing my marching steps  with my team at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.

The march pass was fun but even more fun was the football match finals between NNPC and Shell .  Yours truly was the President of NNPC Supporters club for the day.  I honestly believe we should have received a gold medal for Best Supporters Club  .  The NNPC team obliterated the Shell football team with a 3-0 score victory!

 

I also have to say our track athletes did an amazing job.  NNPC men’s relay team was smoking hot all the way to the gold.  I must also recognize, our Didi who bagged the gold in the women’s 100m dash with  time of 13.9 secs (fyi -women’s world record of 10.49 secs).

Truth be told, the games this year was  not for the faint of heart.  All the teams proved themselves to be worthy competitors in all the events and I celebrate all the amazing athletes cum oil & gas workers who participated in NOGIG 2016.  Without further ado, below is the medal table of NOGIG 2016.

Position	Company	Medals
1st	Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria	14 gold, 14 silver and 9 bronze
2nd	Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)	13 gold, 15 silver and 18 bronze
3rd	Chevron Nigeria Plc.	5 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze
4th	ExxonMobil Nigeria	5 gold, 2 silver and 7 bronze
5th	Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG)	4 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze
6th	Petroleum Training Institute (PTI)	1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze
7th	Total Nigeria Plc.	1 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze
8th	Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB)	2 silver and 3 bronze

Representing the Lagos State Governor, Akimbode Ambode was the Chairman of the State Sports Commission, Deji Tinubu while the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sports Christian Ohaa represented the Minister, Solomon Dalung. The trophies and last medals were issued out and the  Chairman of the Main Organising Committee NOGIG 2016, Ambrose Imokhai closed the day by saying that the NOGIG 2016 Games were the best organised in recent times and that “every participating company was a winner because no company is leaving here empty handed”.

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NOGIG 2016 Results (so far..)

It’s NOGIG time.  I am so excited this year and I plan to have a blast at NOGIG 2016, the 16th edition.  Don’t know what NOGIG is?  Check it out here.

The 16^th edition of the NOGIG competition is holding from February 28 till March 5, 2016 in Lagos state.  Delegates participated in 11 games/sports: Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Squash, Basketball, Swimming, Athletics, Golf, 8-Ball Pool, Chess, Scrabble, and Football.

There were a total of 12 companies that participated in NOGIG 2014; for NOGIG 2016, unfortunately the number of participating companies dropped from 12 to 9.  Oil price thingz .  Still the show must go on and without further ado, the participating companies for NOGIG 2016 are Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation -NNPC (the mothership), Chevron, Dept. of Petroleum Resources (DPR), ExxonMobil, Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB),  (NNPC), Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Shell (SPDC) and Total.  Also Globalcom Nigeria, the foremost promoter of sports in Africa once more was one of the proud sponsors of NOGIG 2016. My company won the NOGIG 2014, so we are the reigning champions, top dog of the oil and gas industry, e no easy o!

So what did you do, Ugochi? On my part, I swim for my company and I participated in the Women’s Breast Stroke Event as well as the Women’s Swimming Relay.   The length of the pool used was 35m.  Women swarm one length of the pool while the men swarm two lengths.  Here are the results for the events I participated in :

1. Women’s Breaststroke Event

• 1st Place   – Shell  –  34.72sec
• 2nd Place – NNPC – 35.31sec
• 3rd Place – DPR  –    39.06sec

2. Women’s Swimming Relay

• 1st Place  – NNPC  – 2min. 13.52sec
• 2nd Place – Shell  – 2min. 30.50sec

Yeap!  I won a gold and silver medals.  Yippee!!! 

The games are still going on and I shall do an update on this post after the closing ceremony scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 5, 2016  by which time we shall know who is still/the new champion.  Bragging rights mode activating .  In the meantime do leave a comment.  Thank you.

Check out the NOGIG medal table here.