Inter Tertiary Games Begin In Lagos

The 2012 edition of the Lagos Inter Tertiary Games begin today.

The championship, which enters its fourth edition this year, is scheduled to end on Saturday, 10 November with at least 17 tertiary institutions taking part in the schools sports competition.

The tournament, which is facilitated by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola is organised by relevant sporting associations in Lagos State.

The schools will compete in Athletics (100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m), Basketball (men and women), Soccer (men), Beach Soccer (men), Table Tennis (singles-men and women), Volleyball (men and women) and Beach Volleyball (men and women).

Ahead of the championship, the participating schools were given the sum of 3.250 million Naira as preparation support (kits and training sessions) by the state government.

 The sum of N9.825 million was graciously approved by the sports loving governor of Lagos as prize money.

Table Tennis and Volleyball will kick start the championship on Thursday at the Sports Complex of the University of Lagos.

According to the programme made available to the media by the organisers, Table Tennis events will end on Saturday, while Volleyball ends on Monday.

Basketball events start on Friday with Football kicking off at both Unilag and Yabatech Sports Centres. Beach soccer and Beach Volleyball at Kuramo Beach on Lagos Island, while athletics events take place at Yabatech.

Among the institutions expected to feature in the competition are University of Lagos, Lagos State University, Nigerian Army School of Finance, Lagos State Polytechnic, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Yaba College of Technology, School of Fisheries and Marine Technology.

Others are Michael Otedola College of Education, Federal College of Education (Technical), Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Grace Polytechnic, Ronik Polytechnic, Caleb University, Imota, Wave Crest School of Catering and Hotel Management, Ansal ud-Deen College of Education, Wolex Polytechnic and Lagos City Polytechnic.

Lagos State Polytechnics, LASPOTECH won the 2011 edition with 6 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals and the winners were given N3.3m as well as giant trophies and medals for their efforts.

University of Lagos came second with  5 gold, 3 silver and 7 bronze and they won N2m, Lagos State University, LASU came third with 4 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals, the athletes received N1.810m, while  Yaba College of Education, Yabatech, came fourth with 4 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze and the athletes were proud winners of N1.735m.

 In 2011, 1189 students/athletes participated for the 17 institutions in the last tournament.