Nigerian national Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has promoted sports development through sponsorship of flagship sporting events. For two decades starting from 1990 and ending in 2011, the company and its partner bankrolled what was without doubt the biggest national athletics event in the African continent. Every year, young and talented Nigerian athletes joined their internationally renowned counterparts like Innocent Egbunike, Mary Onyali, Falilat Ogunkoya, Fatima Yusuf, Chidi Imoh, Olapa