Over six thousand athletes from thirty-six states including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja will participate in twenty-two accredited sporting events at the sixth edition of National School Sports Festival holding in Kwara State from Wednesday, 20th of November.
Speaking on Wednesday at the logo unveiling ceremony at the Media Centre of Teslim Balogun Stadium, President, Nigeria School Sports Federation, Mallam Ibrahim Mohammed, who explained that seventeen sports would be regarded as scoring while six sports would be a demonstration sports, thanked the kwara state Governor for approving the federation's proposal within a short period of notice.
Mohammed, who noted that Akwa-Ibom state was to host the festival but the state declined, said the Kwara State government had a standard stadium that could successfully accommodate the accredited sports, adding that the games would provide a forum for the integration of youths, unearth sporting talents at early age and also to redirect the excessive energy of the youths on positive endeavors.
While unveiling the games logo, Mohammed also give kudos to Sterling Bank Limited for supporting the federation with 30 million and Nestle Milo, for making available 7 million naira, as well as the National Sports Commission, NSC, that gave them 20 million naira, said this year would be the first time corporate bodies would rally round NSSF with huge amount of money to host the games, adding that the Chairman of National Academical Sports Committee, Yemi Idowu assisted them in getting the support of Sterling Bank to sponsor the tournament..
Kwara State Director of Sports, Tunde Kazeem, said the state was happy to associate with the NSSF because the games would go a long way to add value to the development of sports in kwara state, adding that the future of Nigerians Sports is school sports, hence the reason why NSSF programmes must be supported.
Brand Manager, Nestle Milo, Funmi Osineye, whose company will be handling the under 13 football event of NSSF's games said the company for over a decade had been supporting school sports programmes and the efficacy of their support has yielded positively towards the growth of school sports.
Representative of Sterling Bank Limited, Adeshina Atilola, said the relationship between the bank and NSSF would foster the growth of school sports which according to him is the right step towards the growth of sports development.
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