{"id":38115,"date":"2018-09-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bk-shines-again-in-inter-bank-games\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T15:12:53","slug":"bk-shines-again-in-inter-bank-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bk-shines-again-in-inter-bank-games\/","title":{"rendered":"BK shines again in inter-bank Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The games that officially kicked off on 04th August saw its finals on this Saturday, 01st September, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament which is organized by Rwanda Bankers\u2019 Association-RBA, aims to create better inter-bank relations by giving members a chance to interact with each other, away from their core profession and also sustain their health through Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The participating banks in the games were; Bank of Kigali, AB Bank, Access Bank, GT Bank, BPR, Cogebanque, Urwego Bank, I&#038;M Bank, Equity Bank, KCB Bank, Unguka Bank, Central Bank and Bank of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>BK took the volleyball title after Central Bank voluntarily forfeited. It had been earlier demolished by Ecobank. <\/p>\n<p>The BK basketball team led by Popular Lionel Hakizimana defeated Equity Bank 87-63 in the final played at the Rwanda National Paralympic Committee gymnasium at Amahoro Stadium. He features for local giants Patriots basketball club. <\/p>\n<p>Although beaten, Olivier Shyaka, who played for Equity Bank, was awarded as the best player of the game. He plays for local giants REG Basketball ball team. <\/p>\n<p>Bank of Kigali also claimed the football title by defeating 2-0 against Equity Bank. On another side, BPR demolished BNR by scoring 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>In each game, the first team got away with a cup and a cash prize of Rwf1 Million. The second was awarded with Rwf500 000, and the third went away with Rwf300 000.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Celebrations were held in Century Park, Nyarutarama, where Hip-hop artist, Riderman and DJ Ira warmed revelers. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27032 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bk_ihabwa_igikombe_yegukanye_muri_baskteball-f2af6.jpg\" alt=\"Bank of Kigali receiving a Trophy cup\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27030 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dj_ira_niwe_wavangavangaga_umuziki_afasha_abantu_kubyina-deaaa.jpg\" alt=\"DJ Ira warmed those who attended the celebrations.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27031 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bpr_yegukanye_umwanya_wa_gatatu_muri_ruhago_inyagiye_nbr-77b94.jpg\" alt=\"BPR was ranked third after defeating Central Bank\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Kigali has championed the second Edition of Inter-Bank games after winning competition titles in Volleyball, Basketball, and Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}