The stage is now set for the maiden edition of the Higher Institutions Football League (HIFL) scheduled to hold across university campuses in Nigeria from the 28th of July, 2018. President of the Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA), Professor Stephen Hamafyelto made this known recently, and assured football lovers across the country of an interesting competition.
“We are happy we are finally kicking off the games. At the end of this maiden edition, we hope to have convinced our sponsors and indeed Nigerians that collegiate sports is ripe in Nigeria. Then, we may be thinking of expanding the fixtures.” He added that “HiFL will complement the efforts of NUGA to bring back the good old days of competitive inter-school games. Although we are starting with football, we hope to expand to other sports later.”
HIFL was launched in February 2018 by PACE Sports and Entertainment Marketing as an international event in Lagos. HIFL is endorsed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA) and the winner of HIFL will represent Nigeria at the International University Sports Federation games in Naples, Italy.