“They have secured for themselves, a place in the Africa’s best 11 team.”
In a speech delivered by the publisher of the magazine, Ken Giami and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday described Adesina as Africa’s developer-in-chief.
He said this year’s edition, which was the 8th in the series, attracted over 300,000 votes and a remarkable 2.2million engagements across various social media platforms continent wide, roughly a 35 per cent increase from the 2018 edition. “They have secured for themselves, a place in the Africa’s best 11 team. We are very proud of the work they do, and are happy to be identified with them” the publisher said.
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