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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.
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.
Kiadum Edookor