Lagos Strategies Ahead School Sports Festival, National Sports Festival, NSF.

As part of the efforts to ensure that Team Lagos excel in the two major national sports competitions remaining for this year, the management of the state’s Sports Council has begun strategic planning with stakeholders within its fold.

Team Lagos is scheduled to take part in the National School Sports Festival in Makurdi, Benue and the 19th National Sports Festival coming up this year, in Calabar, Cross River States in September and November 2014.
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In the last few days, the Director of Sports, Lagos State Sports Council,  Dr. Kweku Tandoh, has been holding series of meetings with the stakeholders all in a bid to ensure that Lagos excels in those tournaments.

The meetings were held with Lagos State Technical Committee members headed by Babatunde Fatayi-Williams, who is also the Chairman of Aquatic Federation of Nigeria, Chairmen and Technical Directors of Sports approved for the School Sports tourney and the National Sports Festival, as well as sports association’s secretaries and sports officers in the local government and Local Council Development Areas.

Tandoh, mandated the secretaries and coaches of  the sports associations to build their teams for the NSSF Games around the athletes that represented the state at the recently concluded DAWN Games, South West States Secondary School Games.

He assured that selection of athletes to represent the state will be based on comparative strengths, performance and transparent evaluation of the athletes.

“We will continue to support sports development in the state and see to the welfare of our athletes. The result of the government’s grassroots sports development programmes have manifested in our achievements at the last school sports festival in Ilorin 2013 where we came second, the Eko 2012 National Sports Festival where we came third and also at the DAWN Games 2014 where Team Lagos came first,” said Tandoh, who was the Secretary of the Local Organising Committee, LOC, for Eko 2012 Games.

Sports associations are currently embarking on weekly training programmes to get the athletes ready for the two national tournaments where Lagos is hoping to put up an excellent performance.