National Schools Sports Preparation Excites President

The President of the
National Schools Sports Federation (NSSF), Ibrahim Mohammed, has in Lagos said he was confident that the 2013 National Schools Sports Festival would be spectacular.
Mohammed told newsmen that  the festival would be successful because of the sponsorship boost received from private organisations.
The festival which will hold from November 20 to 30 in Ilorin, Kwara State will feature 16 competitive events.
Six other sports will be demonstration sports at the festival in a bid to monitor how well they could be rightly included for active participation.
“This year’s festival will be unique in its own nature. This is because, for the first time in its history, we have corporate organisations which are sponsoring the festival.
“Over the past years, all the funding for the competition have been through our efforts and that of those within the government sector who admire and appreciate what we are doing,” Mohammed said.
He said this time around the competition has “huge sponsorship packages’’ from the National Sports Commission (NSC), Sterling Bank and Nestle Milo.
The NSSF president said the demonstration sports at the festival would be organised and closely monitored by members of the six sports federations for adequate assessment.
“We will have our executive committee members at all the demonstration events and these demonstration events will be conducted by members of the federation of the respective events,” Mohammed said.
Speaking also, the Kwara State Director of Sports, Tunde Kazeem, also assured that all plans had been put in place to guarantee a successful hosting of the festival.
Kazeem said Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara had an interest in Nigerian youths, and was therefore willing to support any initiative that had to do with youth empowerment.
“Right now, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the festival is on ground, working hard to ensure that the festival turns out to be the best of its kind.
“This is a youth programme and our governor has been youth-inclined and is ever ready to support anything that has to do with youth empowerment,’’ Kazeem said.