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CEAPOLY To Include Sports In Curriculum – Rector
The management of the Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic (CEAPOLY), Rumuola, Port Harcourt, has unfolded plans for the inclusion of sports in its curriculum.
Rector of the polytechnic, Dr Moses Neebee also said the institution will form a football team that will compete in all external competitions.
Dr. Neebee said this during the kick off of the 2024 annual Rector cup competition, which was well attended by students and people from all works of life.
“Both academic and non academic staff of the institution will play novelty match once in a month, results of the games will be kept with the view to awarding prizes by the end of the year.
“The institution has expanded the competition through the addition of more games this was to keep the promise of developing other sporting events in the Polytechnic”, Dr. Neebee said.
He further said that the competition which is over ten years now will continuously be expanded to accommodate the interest of all students in the school, saying that this year’s event will last for two weeks unlike previous competitions which normally last for one week.
The rector also said that the event is for talent hunting and development adding that there is no winner, no loser as far as the competition was concerned.
Also speaking the Director of Sports of the institution Daye Barango said sports such as table tennis, volleyball, draft, judo, Chess and others have been added to the competition this year.
According to Barango the standard of the game has also improved over the years.
He advised the teams to put in their best as prizes will be awarded at the end of the competition.
The first match of the competition was between School of Engineering and School of Legal Studies which saw Engineering beat hard fighting Legal Studies with a lone goal. However, both teams displayed what can be described as football artistry.
In the female category School of information and communications walked over school of financial studies following non appearance and three points was awarded to them.
Earlier, a novelty match between academic and non- academic staff of the polytechnic ended in goal less draw.
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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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