Sports
Niger to storm NSF With 100 contingent
By Daniel Ebi, Minna.
Niger Sports Ministry says the State is to storm the 22nd edition of the National Sports festival hosted by Ogun State with 100 strong government.
The State contingent consisting of athletes, coaches, and officials is aimed at ensuring that the State puts up a decent showing at the national Sports Fiesta.
Niger state Commissioner for Youth and Sports development, Alhaji Yahaya Ibrahim Gulbin-Boka disclosed this while receiving officials of the State SWAN executives who paid him a courtesy visit at his office.
He said the 100-man contingent, including coaches and officials, will be representing Niger state at the 22nd edition of National Sports Festival (NSF) slated to kick off on 20th of May.
The Commissioner used the occasion to give an update on the level of preparations and readiness of the state contingent to this
year’s edition of the festival.
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Gulbin-Boka disclosed that the State will feature in 13 different sporting even as he hinted that the state had performed creditably in the zonal eliminations which took place in Jos, Plateau state
The Commissioner said Sports “I can confirm to you now that we have a 100-man contingent, including coaches and officials to represent Niger state in the multi-sport events”.
“Niger state will feature 13 different sports, including lawn tennis, athletics, Squash, Scrabble, Table tennis, Badminton, Taekwondo, handball and a few others”, he said.
Gulbin-Boka told the SWAN officials, “As you can see, we are making final arrangements for the contingent to start taking off any moment from now”.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner has expressed appreciation to sports philanthropists and stakeholders, including SWAN for supporting the overall growth and development of sports.
Though there were noticeable hitches in the overall preparations, Gulbin-Boka expressed optimism that Niger state would have an impressive outing at the festival.
