Niger Targets Top Spot At National School Sports Fiesta.

Niger State Government has said that the state's team to the sixth edition of the National School Sports Federation would surpass its past records in the games as the screening starts on Thursday, November 22, in Kwara State.

 At the last edition held in Port Harcourt, Rivers States, Niger finished 12th having dominated the handball events.

However, the coordinator of school sports in Niger, Kudu Umar, said the team had concluded its one-week camping while they will be departing for Kwara on Thursday in order to acclamatise to the weather in Ilorin.

  “I know Niger State has not been among the top 10 teams but this year, we are ready to do better than our 12th place in the last edition. We have been in camp for the past seven days and we will be departing to Ilorin on Thursday.

All our athletes are in top shape for the championship while the support we have been getting from the government has been enormous. For us, we decided to select our athletes from rural areas because we realized that they are skillful and much more determined to do the state proud.

We know we are going to face challenges from teams like Cross River, Lagos and Rivers but we are not scared as we have well been motivated to do well at the tournament,” Umar said.

  Meanwhile, officials of the Nigeria School Sports Federation (NSSF) are ready to rid the tournament of irregularities as series of methods have been put in place to check cheating by any team