Oshodi Inaugurates MOC, Sub Committees For 2015 Secondary Schools Sports Festival

The Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, Wahid Enitan Oshodi has inaugurated the Main Organising Committee (MOC) and the various Sub- Committees for the Lagos State Secondary Schools Sports Festival (IBILE 2015).

The Secondary Schools Sports Festival, which is slated to hold from 26 January to 6 February, 2015 according to the Commissioner, who is also the Chairman of the MOC, is in line with the developmental focus of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN)’s administration on Grassroots Sports Development.
The Festival will also help the state to prepare better for the National School Sports Festival (NSSF) which is an annual event.

Over 500 secondary schools from the public and private schools in Lagos State that include Lagos State Government schools, Federal Government schools, military schools and missionary schools and more will participate in 21 sports. The sports are Athletics, Chess, Gymnastics, Scrabble, Swimming, Weightlifting, Boxing, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo. Wrestling.

Others are Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Tennis, Fives, Basketball, Cricket, Handball, Volleyball and Hockey, while Deaf Sports Athletics and Table Tennis will also feature.

The venues for the games are Teslim Balogun Stadium, Rowe Park, National Stadium, Agege Stadium, Unilag, Tafawa Balewa Square (Cricket Pitch) and Jubril Martins Secondary School.

In a related development and prelude to the sports festival, Lagos State Sports Forum with the Theme “School Sports; The Way Forward” will come up on Tuesday, 16 December, 2014 at the Molade Okoya- Thomas Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

Expected participants is 600 games masters from public and private schools in Lagos State, chairmen and technical directors of 36 sports associations in Lagos State and representatives from Ministry of Education.

Keynote Address will be delivered by Mr. Alhassan Yakmut, Director, Grassroot Sports , National Sports Commission, while three papers will be presented by Mrs. Gloria Obajimi on School. Sports and Sports Facilities,, Prince Wale Oladunjoye (Grassroot Sports and Development: The Lagos Experience) and Chief Segun Odegbami (Sports and Education).