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NSF 2020:Stakeholders applauds FCTA For Timely Aproval of Fund

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5 years ago

January 17, 2020

Joel Ajayi

Major stakeholders in federal capital territory have heaped huge commendation on the FCT adminstration for timely approval of fund for the forthcoming national sports festival holding in Edo state.

The preparation for the games start with zonal elimination across the six geopolitical zone while FCT which is in the North Central will be travelling to Ilorin for their elimination series.

FCT has never had it so good when it comes to participating in national event with a case study of the last National Youth Games in Ilorin where the athletes have to go through harrowing experiences.

However, since the coming on board of Minister of State for FCT ,Ramatu Tijani and FCT sports department placed under her,she has made it a point of duty to ensure that sports men and women are properly taken care off with their entitlement paid as at when due .

Joel Ajayi ,Sports editor for AljaziraNigeria Newspaper and CEO of the Gleamer News said these are good times for sports men and women in FCT because they have minister who is a mother that understand the plight of children and has made it her prerogative to protect its people

On his own, Salifu Usman,who is the head of sports desk for leadership newspaper said he hopes this would not be a flash in the pan because this is what should be the standard if we are really serious about about sports development in FCT

The zonal elimination competition which will hold in Ilorin, Kwara state involves seven states from the North Central. The states includes; Plateau, Nasarawa, Kwara, FCT, Niger, Kogi and Benue.

The seven states will compete for the tickets in eight team sports; rugby, cricket, beach volleyball, football, basketball, handball, volleyball and hockey.

All the eight games involve men and women teams.

FCT finished 7th on the final table of the 2018 National Sports Festival held in Abuja with 21 gold, 9 silver and 24 bronze.

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CSO Salutes Trump

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2 weeks ago

January 20, 2025

The Gleamer

A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.

Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.

“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.

“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.

The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.

He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.

According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.

Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.

Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening

About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.

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