• Okorie completes athletics workplace, hostel in Ebonyi
Administrators of Sports activities within the South-East are right now selecting the venue for the maiden Tobias Igwe Memorial Basic, which is sponsored by United States-based former 400m hurdler, Victor Okorie.
Okorie, a board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), is sponsoring the Basic in honour of the late Tobias Igwe, who’s rated as one in all Nigeria’s best athletics managers of all time. The Basic, which was initially meant for athletes from all of the 5 southeastern states, is now producing curiosity amongst athletes from the South-South and South-West. It will likely be held on June 3 and 4. Talking with The Guardian, yesterday, Okorie, who’s within the nation to place the ending touches to the athletics workplace and hostel that he’s developing for monitor and subject stars in Ebonyi State, said that each one administrators of Sports activities within the South-East will converge on Enugu to deliberate on the venue for the occasion. “The Tobias Igwe Memorial Basic is a giant occasion,” Okorie stated. “Some foreign-based athletes is perhaps coming from the US and Europe to take part in it. All the administrators of sports activities within the South-East are associating with the Basic as an avenue to construct their athletes. “One main subject that can be mentioned tomorrow (right now) is the venue”.
All of them need the Tobias Igwe Memorial Basic to happen of their states, however we now have to accept one venue. Perhaps, by subsequent 12 months, it can rotate to a different state.” Okorie, a consultant of the South-East on the Board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), was probably the most gifted hurdlers found and nurtured to stardom by the late Tobias Igwe, in Enugu through the golden period of Nigerian athletics. “All people needs to be a part of the Classics to indicate their respect for the late Tobias Igwe for the nice work he did for Nigerian athletics,” stated Okorie, a silver medallist at COJA 2003 African Video games. Okorie additionally revealed that the athletics workplace and hostel he constructed for monitor and subject stars in Ebonyi State is prepared to be used. “I made a decision to embark on this venture as a manner of constructing a formidable athletics basis for teens of Ebonyi State,” he stated. “It’s my little manner of contributing to youth empowerment not solely in Ebonyi State but additionally the South-East and Nigeria as a rustic.” Aside from Victor Okorie, the late coach Tobias Igwe, popularly generally known as Toblow, found and nurtured prime Nigerian monitor and subject stars like Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Davidson Ezenwa, Uchenna Emedolu, Clement Chukwu, Raphael Ihunaegbo, Tina Iheagwam and Charity Opara.
