Sports
100 Children Ready To Compete At 2021 Golf Clinic
No fewer than 100 children, as from Monday, will slug it out at the 2021 Children Golf Development Clinic inside the IBB International Golf and Country Club in the Nigeria’s Capital City Abuja.
The two-week event tagged “Future Champions of Golf” is being put together by the club’s Ladies Section.
It is part of efforts to raise the level of sport by the Executive Committee led by Lady Captain MaryRose Richard-Obioha.
More than 70 children and teenagers, whose ages range from 5 to 18 years, have so far registered and the organizers believe that more are still coming.
According to the event’s organizing Chairman, Joy Ikwue who is also the Vice Lady Captain, top Nigerian professional golfers will offer life skills training to the children with a view of integrating them into the game.
“Golf is a game of rules and in as much as there will be many rules for the children to learn, we will also want them to know about service to humanity, country and fellow golfers,” Ikwue stated.
She said the club’s ladies have traditionally always arranged this summer development clinic for over a decade now and the section has tried to sustain the developmental programme with the aim of discovering potential young golfers.
“The clinic is to catch them young and groom them so as to become assets for their parents and Nigeria as a whole.”
Ikwue, however, lamented the difficulties in getting sponsors as some of the letters sent out did not receive any response.
She, however, thanked the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, Rotary Club, as well as members of the club for their support.
The clinic will run from Monday July 26th to Friday August 6th.
Sports
Adeboye Commends Phillip Shaibu’s Appointment as Well-Merited
Senior special assistant on grassroots sports development to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Adeboye Anthony Adeyinka, has sent a graciously heartwarming congratulatory message to Comerade Phillip Shaibu on his recent appointment as the new Director General of the National Institute for sports (NIS), saying, Shaibu’s remarkable achievements in sports development and what he has done to transform sports in Edo state during his time as Deputy Governor, made him worthy and credible for such lofty appointment.
‘I want to formally congratulate my good friend and brother, Comerade Phillip Shaibu, on his recent appointment as the DG of NIS., without mincing words, he deserves this big appointment, because, his antecedents and genuine commitment to sports development have proven that he has the capacity and capability to head and take the NIS to greater heights, “he said.
“Shaibu, is a well known figure in the country’s sports industry and beyond i know he will bring his expertise to the fore in his new role in alignment with the Renewed Hope agenda of, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu”, he added.
Philip Shaibu takes over with immediate effect from Prof. Olawale Moronkola, and he is expected to initiate reforms in the Institute to reposition it to live up to its expected heights.
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