Its Director of Sports, Kwesi Tandoh who was the Chief Executive of the Eko 2012 Games said the state's sports council had resolved to begin programme tagged train the touners workshop where the council;s coaches would be deployed to both public and private secondary school to train their gamesmasters.
While noting that the athletes who represented Lagos State at the last National School Sports Festival, in Ilorin, Kwara State were not the best to have been paraded at Games, Tandoh, said the sports council would use the forthcoming IBILE Games to which is school sports based to select athletes for future competition.
He said the last National Sports Festival hosted by Lagos State Government had placed the state in a vantage position to train its wards with modern sports facilities which have been maintained to international standard following regular sporting activities being organised at the various sports centres.
According to Tandoh, the state will not have to focus on development sports programme as the sports council through the Ministry of Youth Sports and Social Development had concluded plans to feature athletes who recorded excellent performance at the South West Games in May, 2014, would represent the state at the National Sports Festival in Calabar, Cross-River State.
He said Lagos State would into be forced to search for wlite atheletes to represent the state at the National Sports fFestival in Calabar, Cross-River but would rely solely on its athletes than established and already discovered athletes.
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