Champions of the 2024/25 Nigeria Premier Football League season, Remo Stars would be presented the league title on Sunday, May 11, after their last home game of the season against Southwest rivals Ikorodu City, the league board has confirmed.

Remo Stars won their first-ever NPFL title with three games to spare on Sunday, clinching the title in front of their fans in Ikenne with a 1-0 win over Niger Tornadoes in a match-day 35 game.

Second-half substitute Olamilekan Adedayo proved decisive for the club again, scoring a late stunner to send the arena into a romp after their visitors had frustrated them for 83 minutes.

With three matches left to play this season, Remo Stars will be at home for the last time against Ikorodu City on matchday 37, and they can restart their title celebrations with the Southwest derby.

“We have three more matches to go, and we have a champion already. We have an agreement that they will be crowned in their last home game against Ikorodu City. They want to be in a mood where they would be really prepared for it,” NPFL Chairman, Gbenga Elegbeleye confirmed during a radio interview.

“The Remo Stars people are ready to give us a good show, having done so well. They won more matches away than any other club. They really prepared for this season, and that gave them the victory.”

Before their coronation, they would be away to El-Kanemi Warriors on match-day 36 next Wednesday, and their last game of the season will be against Bayelsa United on May 18.

“What we have done is to stick with the calendar of the whole world. We want to match Europe so that our players who really want to go for trials during the off-season will be able to, without looking like they absconded from their clubs. When they go, the teams will be able to get replacements easily,” Elegbeleye added.

For winning the 2024/25 title, Remo Stars will also smile to the bank with a whopping N200m, a 33.3 per cent increase from last season’s N150m.

“We promised when we started three years ago that we would pay the winner N100m and we did. Last season, we paid N150m and this season we said we are going to pay N200m and we are going to do that. We want to be going up geometrically. The more we improve, the more marketable the league becomes,” Elegbeleye said.

With 68 points, Remo hold an unassailable 10-point gap ahead of Rivers United in second place with three games left to play this season.

The Sky Blue Stars also became the first Southwest club to win the Nigerian topflight title since Julius Berger’s triumph in 2000.