The indoor sportshall of Mobolaji Johnson, Rowe Park, Yaba will be alive today as 25secondary schools begin hostilities at the maiden edition of the Adeyemi Karunwi Trust table tennis championship.
The participating schools are drawn from the six education districts in Lagos with each district presenting teams from four schools and one other independent school.
The one-week competition which is being organised in partnership with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development, Lagos Table Tennis Association as well as the Education Ministry will feature three events in the Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
According to a board member of the Adeyemi Karunwi Trust, Adebamike Oloko, the tourney is meant to foster the development and empowerment of youths through promotion of such competition in schools across Lagos State.
Prior to the staging of the championship, she said, the body in the last two years has assisted 34 schools in organising sporting events. Oloko said: “It is with great pleasure that Adeyemi Karunwi Trust humbly acknowledges the recognition by this current administration and the efforts of the Trust, which has been on the ground since 1980 to support one of the extra curricular activities in public schools located within Nigeria, particularly Lagos State.”
The Lagos State Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, Wahid Enitan Oshodi, lauded the body for supporting sports, saying such gesture was in line with the ideals of the present administration.
He assured that the talents unearthed at the championship would be monitored and groomed to stardom by the ministry. Aside the rewards, every school that will take part in the competition would get table tennis equipment.
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