The Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games began on Monday with preliminary matches in sports like volleyball, chess, scrabble, Tennis and table tennis at the Package ‘B’ of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Events continue on Tuesday (today) with Team NUPRA taking on NNPC in volleyball. Other volleyball matches, according to the schedule, include NLNG against Chevron, Total Energies against NMDPRA, while PTI and ARADEL will clash in the afternoon session. Oando and ExxonMobil will also take to the court in the last match of the day.
In some of the events decided on Monday, NMDPRA defeated PTI 2-0 in volleyball, just as NUPRC defeated Chevron 2-0. In other volleyball matches, Shell defeated ExxonMobil 2-0, while TotalEnergies dismissed ARADEL 2-0. NNPC also defeated NLNG 2-0.
In tennis, NNPC’s Awin Ganjang defeated Ibrahim Afuye of SEPLAT in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 in the men’s singles. Similarly, Kazeem Abdufatau of PTI defeated Diaz Zapricon of NLNG 6-3, 6-3. Olarewaju Akinwumi of NMDPRA defeated Isibor Iyasele of ExxonMobil 6-4, 4-6, 11-9. There were also matches in the women’s singles.
