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RSHA Moves To Protect Sports Facilities In Rivers
The Chairman, House Committee on Sports Matters in the Rivers State house of Assembly, Hon. Kelechi Nwogu, has said that sporting facilities in the state would not be used for other purposes.
Hon. Nwogu, who is representing Omuma Local Government Area, in the state assembly disclosed this when members of League of Sports Writers (LSW) paid him a courtesy visit in his office, in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
He stated that sports is important to life, besides, being a profession, where people earn their living pointing out that such facilities should be used appropriately.
He further revealed that the committee would soon embark on facilities tour, as part of its oversight function.
According to him, the tour is to enable the committee understand happenings in the sports sector in the state and facilities on ground.
“As part of our oversight function the House Committee on Sports will soon embark on facilities tour to see things by ourselves.
“We will also ensure that sporting facilities in the state are not used for other purposes,” Hon. Nwogu said.
The lawmaker however commended the LSW for its vision and good works especially enlightenment as sports development from the grassroots and appealed to the body to give the committee adequate publicity in the state.
Hon. Nwogu also assured the organisation that his committee would partner with them to achieve the state government’s desire for sports development.
Earlier, the chairman of LSW, China Acheru said the association would assist in various ways to develop grassroots sports in the state.
Acheru, therefore listed the achievements of his organisation which include organising seminars, discovery of talents, giving out free tickets to fans to watch Premier League matches in the state and promotion of Sports through enlightenment.
Tonye Orabere
England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.
Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.
Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.
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