Lagos Island Wins 2014 Ibile Games

The absence of Yaba LCDA may have paved the way for Lagos Island Local Government to emerge as the new winners of Lagos State Sports Festival tagged IBILE Games 2014, which was concluded at the weekend at Teslim Balogun Stadium.

  Lagos Island topped the medals table of the Senior Category of the Games with a total of 366 medals: 151 gold, 108 silver and 107 bronze medals.

  In the distant second position are Team Surulere that won 109 medals: 36 gold, 32 silver and 41 bronze while Team Ibeju Lekki came third with 93 medals: 29 gold, 27 silver and 27 bronze medals.

Team Ojo came fourth with78 medals:

25 gold, 29 silver and 24 bronze. In the fifth position are Team Oriade Local Council Development Area (LCDA) that won 63 medals: 24 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.

  In the Junior Category, which featured secondary school students in the state, schools with best performance in each of the 20 sports in this category were listed out by the Technical Sub-Committee headed by Babatunde Fatayi-Williams.

  Team Lagos City Senior College, Sabo, Yaba were outstanding in the boys' category. They were the best school team in four sports Wrestling, Handball, Badminton and Squash, while in the Girls' category, Wesley Girls junior Secondary School, Sabo, Yaba out shined others in four sports: Weightlifting, Judo, Badminton and Squash.

  The football final, which was decided during the colourful final ceremony watched attended by Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, Sir Molade Okoya Thomas and other important dignitaries, saw Ojo and Surulere Sports City Football Club playing a 1-1 draw in the regulation only for the Ojo team to win the football gold in the penalty shootout that ended 3-1.

  Director of Sports, Lagos Sports Council, Dr. Kweku Adebayo Tandoh said that the Main Organising Committee, MOC, headed by the Commissioner for Sports, Mr. Wahid Enitan Oshodi, appreciated the supports received from Governor Fashola, the Ministry of Education, Corporate Nigeria, the media, the athletes, students, Principals, Games Masters, technical officers, Chairmen of all the participating local councils in the state and the spectators for the success and glamour of IBILE Games 2014.

  "As we close the IBILE Games, we invite you all to the South-West States Secondary Schools Games "DAWN Games" which holds in Lagos from 16-24 May, 2014," Tandoh said..

  No fewer than 180 secondary schools in the public and private took part in this year's IBILE Games with 39 Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in attendance.