After much rigmarole whether to play abridged league or not, the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) 2022.23 season finally gets underway with Bendel Insurance of Benin defeating homers , Akwa United 2-0 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, on Sunday.
Insurance have spent the greater part of the last decade in the lower tier league look like re-enacting their superb form of the late 1970s.
The game was Bendel Insurance’s first in the Nigerian top-flight in over three years.
Imade Osarenkhoe shot the newly promoted Insurance ahead in the 40th minute.
Divine Nwachukwu doubled the lead four minutes later to give the visiting Insurance a 2-0 lead at half time.
No further goal was recorded in the second half.
The remaining matchday one fixtures will be played next weekend.
The match was live on the cable television and watched by major football stakeholders in the country, including the Nigeria Football Federation president Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, top officials of the Interim League Management Committee(IMC) as well as lovers of football in Uyo and its environs.
