Federal Government Declares State of Emergency on Sports

The Federal Government on Thursday declared a state of emergency on Nigerian sports following the poor performance of the Team Nigeria Athletes in the just concluded Olympic Games hosted in Rio, Brazil.

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, who made the declaration in Abuja yesterday while receiving the reports of the Sports Reform Committee, maintained that certain measures must be introduced to return Nigeria to the comity of major sporting nations, through provisions of emergency rule.
His words: “We are indeed in a state of emergency because of lack of performance in the sports sector. We will therefore take far reaching measures to restructure the sector. Our dismal outing at the just concluded Rio Olympics is another factor why we must reform our sports.
“Although it is not what we hoped for, yet it offered a glimmer of hope that if we put our acts together, we will achieve greater results in future Olympics. This is part of what this report is about. Having received this report from the Sports Reform Committee, we will begin the implementation by declaring a state of emergency in Nigerian sports”. Dalung declared.
Speaking earlier while submitting the report, the chairman of the National Sports Reforms Committee, Godwin Kienka, recommended for transparency as panacea for the reform.
“The first step to a meaningful and enduring reform is transparency. Sports in the past has been run like a cult. No one knows how much the NOC gets from the IOC by way of grants.
No one knows what the sports federations get from the IOC and their international federations and from other bodies by way of grants and counterpart funding. The nation and the sports men and women deserve to know,” he noted.

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Posted: at 2-09-2016 12:23 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero

KK SEEN BUT NOT READ

Posted: at 2-09-2016 12:32 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero

senseless leaders that are not serious

Posted: at 2-09-2016 12:42 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

LIP SERVICE AS USUAL

Posted: at 2-09-2016 12:45 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

Wested generations.

Posted: at 2-09-2016 01:49 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Is only in Nigeria that pple are practising what dey read in school that is why our country is going down day by day, hw can u put somebody that doesn't knw anything abt sports as minister what did u expect

Posted: at 2-09-2016 03:13 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Na only sport una notice?

Posted: at 2-09-2016 05:10 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

ARE THEY SERIOUS AT ALL

Posted: at 2-09-2016 05:40 PM (7 years ago) | Newbie

 

Posted: at 2-09-2016 06:27 PM (7 years ago) | Hero

I would´ve agreed with this rant  if you were fired on return from Rio.

Posted: at 2-09-2016 07:57 PM (7 years ago) | Upcoming