Kano SWAN Organises Fitness Walk For Journalists

The Kano State Chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), will on Saturday organise a “fitness walk” for journalists in the state to improve their health.

The Chairman, Mr Mike Oboh, told Tidesports source in Kano that the objective was to keep newsmen fit and promote harmonious relationships among them.

Oboh said that more than 200 media men from different organisations would participate in the exercise.

According to him, the event will involve a three-kilometre walk for older journalists and a five-kilometre walk for the young.

The exercise, tagged, “Walk to Write”, Oboh said, would start from the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano through Ibrahim Taiwo Way and terminate at the starting point.

Oboh said various prizes would be given to the first top five in the male and female categories.

He added that the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) would provide road guide for the event.

Part of the programme, according to him, will be the investiture of Gov. Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State as a national patron of SWAN.

Oboh thanked the government for its assistance to the association in particular and for sports development in the state.

He recalled that the government hosted the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup and sponsored journalists to the last FIFA World Cup and the Nations Cup in South Africa and Angola respectively.

Meanwhile,a medical practitioner, Dr Sam Ogbondemimu, on Friday in Lagos, stressed the importance of every person to maintain healthy lifestyles, especially athletes.

 Ogbondemimu observed that athletes, like many Nigerians, paid little attention to their health.

The doctor, who heads the Medical Unit of the National Institute for Sports (NIS), blamed poverty for the scant attention paid to healthy by Nigerian athletes.

“It has been discovered that most active athletes pay little or no attention to their health because many came from poor backgrounds and want to save the little money they make just to survive.

“Some of them are bread winners of their families. they do all manners of things to make money with their God-given talents,” he said.