Rangers Sign Shirt Sponsorship Deal with Afrinvest

Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) side, Rangers International of Enugu, have signed a shirt sponsorship deal with Afrinvest worth fifty million (N50, 000, 000: 00) and for a span of 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.

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 talented football talents who can in turn become the beacon 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 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 excel and become professionals and hopefully rise to international standards, they too will in turn help other young people and show them that there is value and pride in doing things professionally. ”

We are wholeheartedly committed to Rangers,’ he said.

Commissioner for youth and sports, Enugu State,  Lloyd Ekweremadu who signed on behalf of the state government, said they have renaissance Rangers FC. “You have a new management and also a 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 had 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 Germain were being run and organized.”