17th NSF: LOC Inaugurate Sub-Committees Tomorrow

Basketballers competing on an excellent court at the last NSF tagged DADA 2009

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the hosting of the 17th National Sports Festival tagged “Garden City Games 2010” rose from its meeting at the weekend with a resolve to inaugurate the 18 sub-committees and the Team Rivers to ensure the success of the event.

The sub-committees are accommodation, catering, finance, games village management, general athlete, welfare, liaison, contact, marketing and sponsorship, media and publicity, medical, mobilization, protocol, and ceremonials.

Others are sanitation, secretariat and documentation, security, Team Rivers, participation, transport and traffic management, venues and facilities, and volunteer services.

Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting presided over by the LOC chairman and the state Deputy Governor, Engr Tele Ikuru, a member of the committee, Dr Sam Sam Jaja said the sub-committees would be inaugurated tomorrow.

According to Dr Jaja, an advert wouild be placed to invite interested persons to design the festival’s mascot and logo, with the winning designer going home with the sum of N100,000.

He said that the inauguration of the sub-committees, preparations for the festival will assume a speedy dimension and expressed the hope that the event will witness an impressive performance from the Team State.

He observed that the reappearance of Hon. Boma Iyaye as Commissioner for Sports was a testimony of his credible performance in the past and expressed the belief that he would do more.

All the facilities for the sports festival, Dr Jaja said would be upgraded to international standard through the assistance of the Governor Amaechi-led administration.

Basketballers competing on an excellent court at the last NSF tagged DADA 2009