Officers from the Federal Ministry of Sports activities Growth will right now, examine services for the Eighth Nationwide Youth Video games slated for Asaba, Delta State, from September 10 to twenty.
The officers arrived in Asaba, yesterday, for a three-day Joint Technical Assembly forward of the sporting fiesta.
The Director Basic of Delta State Sports activities Fee (DSSC), Festus Ohwojero, who knowledgeable The Guardian, yesterday, that right now has been put aside for inspection of services, added that Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has put every part in place for a profitable internet hosting.
“We’re not new to internet hosting main sporting occasions in Nigeria,” Ohwojero mentioned.
Final week, Oborevwori constituted a seven-member Native Organising Committee (LOC) headed by a two-time sports activities commissioner within the state, Solomon Ogba.
The LOC additionally has the rapid previous chairman of the DSSC Sports activities Fee and President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, and Ohwojero as member/Secretary.
Services to be inspected right now embrace the tartan monitor of the Stephen Keshi Stadium; the indoor sports activities corridor, a swimming pool, and a few colleges penciled down by Delta State as venue for the video games.
In response to Ohwojero, about 6,000 athletes are anticipated to attend this 12 months’s version, and they are going to be accommodated at Dennis Osadebe College, in Asaba.
