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Nasarawa to revamp sports

Nasarawa to revamp sports

By Femi Atolagbe
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The Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, His Excellency, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, has expressed his administration’s readiness to revamp sports and develop youth in the State.

The Governor who was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Youth Development, Sports and NGOs’ Matters, Kwanta Yakubu, disclosed this to journalists at the 2019 5th National Youth Games in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Sule said “we are highly committed to youth and sports development in Nasarawa State.

“Sports is a unifying factor and a terminator of youthful vices in the society.

The present government is poised to revamp sports and sporting activities in the State, which is why we inaugurated an 11-man Sports Reform Committee recently to change the narrative across the nooks and crannies of the State.

“Our administration is less than four months old, and during the first Centenary Day Celebration, we achieved tremendous breakthroughs in all facets of the state, one of which was the triumph of Nasarawa Amazons FC at the final of the 2019 Women’s Aiteo Cup in Kaduna, he began.

He further revealed that he  has set up a working machinery to totally overhaul sports in the State.

“The sports overhaul will require organising Wards, Local Governments and Statewide programmes involving various sports with seasoned sports technocrats readily available to discover raw talents and nurture them.

“On sports facilities facelift, we are working tirelessly to rehabilitate old facilities, and construct new ones across the thirteen Council Areas of the State for general involvement, especially with premium being accorded to the construction of one new stadium in each of the two zones which are yet to have such sports facilities .

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“Currently, we are updating our facilities to meet global standards and where there is need for new ones to be constructed, we are equally working towards such.

“We have equally opened discussion with a firm based abroad to remodel the Sports Academy located in Akwanga and see how to use it as one of the budding grounds for grassroots talents discovery for the State and country at large.

And once all these are set, we will then explore avenues to host the National Youth Games in the nearest future,” he added.

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