Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre sports centre in Oshodi will this Saturday host the final of the maiden edition of the ARIAN Cup, a football competition put together for insurance firms by the Association of Registered Insurance Agents of Nigeria (ARIAN). The gladiators will be AXA Mansard who face Mutual Benefits Assurance PLC in the football final.
The competition began May 14 with seven teams drawn into two pools in which one had three teams and the other comprising four.
AXA Mansard beat Universal Insurance 2-0, while Zenith Insurance fell 1-2 to Tangerine Life. In the third match, Prudential Zenith Life Insurance fell 1-0 to AIICO Insurance.
In the next set of matches, Prudential Zenith Life Insurance lost their second match, 3-1 to Mutual benefits Assurance while AXA Mansard and Tangerine Life battled to a 2-2 draw. Zenith Insurance recovered from their earlier loss by beating Universal Insurance 2-0.
Next was the barren draw outing of AIICO Insurance and Mutual Benefits Assurance before the semi-finals encounters of AXA Mansard versus AIICO Insurance and that of Mutual Benefits Assurance facing Tangerine Life.
The first semi final match finished 1-1 after extra time and had to be decided by penalty shoot-out which AXA won by 4-3. The other semi-final match was equally crunchy. But Mutual Benefits beat Tangerine Life 1-0.
AIICO Insurance will therefore face Tangerine Life in the third place match ahead of the final encounter of AXA Mansard and Mutual Benefits Assurance slated for 12 noon.
Aside bragging rights as the best football playing Insurance company in Nigeria, also at stake will be the winners giant trophy, medals, prize money and certificate of participation.
