Sport

LOC Okays Preparations for National Sports Festival

By Web News 437

By Olusegun Folarin

The Local Organizing Committee, LOC, for the 2024 National Sports Festival has inspected sporting facilities across the three senatorial districts of Ogun state.

The areas inspected include Remo Stars sports facilities at Ikenne, NYSC Orientation camp at Sagamu, MKO Abiola International stadium, Abeokuta, the Golf Resort in Abeokuta, and Alake Sports Centre in Ijeja.

The LOC Chairman, Chief Bukola Olopade who led other members of the committee described tartan track floodlights, scoreboard, the swimming pool, tennis courts, as infinitesimal in facilities that needed to be put in place.

Also, The Executive Secretary, Local Organizing Committee, Dr. Kweku Tandoh expressed satisfaction with the level of facilities provided by the state government for the festival.

Dr. Tandoh who said state had really shown the level of preparedness to host a befitting festival expressed optimism that most of the facilities for the festival would be ready in less than 16 months to the festival.

In a remark, The Chairman, venues and facilities committee, Dr. Emmanuel Igbinosa commended the state government for creating a friendly environment for private business to thrive.

Dr Igbinosa described the sports complex at Remo Stars in Ikenne as world-class that could host any international competition.

The festival is scheduled to hold in the Gateway state between November and December 2024

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Ogun Constitutes LOC for 2024 National Sports Festival

By Web News 582

By Olusegun Folarin

Ogun State government named former Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr Bukola Olopade as the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, LOC, for the 2024 National Sports Festival to be hosted in the State.

Unveiling the 16-man Local Organizing Committee in Abeokuta, the State capital, The Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, noted that a sports enthusiast, Mr Tilewa Adebayo, will be the Co-Chairman for the biennial event.

Mr Talabi explained that the LOC had been mandated to set up subcommittees, made up of various stakeholders to ensure a hitch-free exercise as well as deliver a world class sports festival in the country.

He pointed out that the unveiling of the committee was to reaffirm the readiness of the State government to hold the 2024 National Sports Festival.

Other members of of the committee are the two-time Olympic medalist, Chief Falilat Ogunkoya-Omotayo, the Secretary-general of the Local Organising Committee for the NSF Edo 2020, Dr Emmanuel Igbinosa, a notable sports administrator, Dr Kweku Tandoh, as well as the renowned sports psychologist and head of the Department of Sports and Exercise Medical Sciences at University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana, Professor Oluwaseun Olanrewaju Omotayo.

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