Sports
NYG: Sports Minister frowns at Age Cheat Allegations, melt out stiff penalties
Joel Ajayi
Minister of Youths And Sports, Mr Sunday Dare has expressed his dismay over the current trend of age cheat at the National Youth Games which is meant for Athletes under the age of 15.
Minister who was not happy with the situation frowned at the issue of age cheat that may affect the growth of the sports in the country, thereby vowed to stop age cheat in Sports.
In his closing remark at 6th edition of National Youth Games which held at the University of Ilorin condemned the soaring issues around age cheat in the games and highlighted some of the measure that would be put in place to ensure adequate screening is carried out to admit athletes for the Youth Games.
According to him “I want to condemned and express my disappointment about a few of the problem around age cheating that continues to roar it’s head specifically even during this games”.
“The Ministry for Youths And Sports Development wants to declare that going forward we will ensure that we will adopt more scientific means of identifying age cheat next time and melt out stiff penalties to the offending athletes and the state they represent”.
He further stressed “We will consider the National Identity Management Card (NIMC) registration as a requirement and others that will be roll out later in our letters that will go to out to the states and there will be need for all Athletes to have a NIMC registration before they can participate henceforth”.
“This document would be required, would be developed and we will work in conjunction with the Organisation in charge, this measure is needed to avoid losing out on a possible potential medalist being screened out as over aged while they are not or vise versa”.
However, Minister believes that the move will help in identifying screening of athletes in order not to deny qualified athletes a future in their chosen sport.
Sports
Remain Calm, IBB International Golf Club Tells Members
It was an unusual scenario Saturday morning as the security agencies comprises of Police and DSS stormed the club, asking staff and members to vacate the club house and course.
While reacting to the incident, the release signed by Ibrahim Alhassan Babayo, the Captain of the IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja, described the incident as unfortunate and unexpected.
Ibrahim Babayo accused some minority members with vested interest who collaborated with some security men to seal the club in an attempt to disrupt the scheduled Extra-ordinary General Meeting of the Club.
The release urged everyone to remain calm, assured them that all necessary legal steps will be taken to ensure that the process of filing the Board of Trustees, BOT, vacancies is conducted correctly despite the attempts to derail the process.
The Captain said the club will not relent in its efforts to ensure fairness, transparency and due process prevail.
While assuring the members of continued support and trust, the statement asked the staff and members to await further instructions.
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