Sports festival: Scandal rocks Niger State sports

Date: 31-07-2014 12:24 am (9 years ago) | Author: Dalington
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AHEAD of 2014 National Sports Festival taking place in Calabar by November, Niger State sports ministry has been enmeshed in scandal over alleged addition of fictitious names on the list of players by some top management staff.
It has been alleged that plans by some senior staff of the ministry to smuggle some names on the list being shortlisted ahead of the event blew open when some coaches protested against the distortion of players’ list they had submitted to the ministry for consideration.
It was also gathered that the coaches were not happy with the development.

The deals were blown open when argument ensued between one of the senior staff and a coach on the day letters were presented to some players asking them to represent the state during the festival. The said coach discovered that out of the five names on the list given to him, he could only confirm two to be his players.
The demand to see the Commissioner for Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Tagwai by the coach instead infuriated the senior staff who allegedly devised means to edge him out but his insistence attracted other coaches who also made similar observations.  Tagwai could not be reached as at the time of filing this report. He was said to have travelled for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.


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