Kwara To Build Golf, Table Tennis Academies

Date: 2017-07-17

The Kwara State Government is to establish Golf and Table Tennis Academies to train youth to become top players and champions in national and international competitions.

The State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed disclosed this  in Ilorin, while speaking with newsmen shortly after he performed the ceremonial tee off at the Kwara at 50 Open Golf Championship, holding at Ilorin Golf Course.

Governor Ahmed said the idea of establishing the two Academies in the state is still on course and promised that the idea would be taken to fruition level to support Kwara Football Academy.

He noted that the government is poised to making the Ilorin Golf Course a centre of attraction and destination for Golfers across the country.

The Governor maintained that the Course would continue to stand top among the comity of courses in Nigeria and West Africa sub-region.

Governor Ahmed encouraged Nigerians to develop interest in the game of Golf, saying that Golf is not an elitist game as being insinuated in some quarters.

Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Alhaji Bolakale Ayo said the government would not relent in encouraging sports development in the state, particularly at grassroots level.

Earlier in his remarks, the Captain of Ilorin Golf Course, Layi Maliki had disclosed that the Championship and the Ibadan Open Championship would serve as qualifiers for an international championship billed for Equatorial Guinea. Maliki posited that the competition is to be managed by Sluqfort Nigeria Ltd, Nigeria’s premier promoters,organisers and consultants on golf tournaments.  Maliki disclosed that the competition is sponsored by Bua Nigeria Ltd, a business outfit involved in farm produce such as Rice and Sugar Cane plantation in Lafiagi, Kwara.

Kunle Oyinloye, MD, Bank of Infrastructure, Sterling Bank Plc, Lanre Shittu Motors, Yolas Consultants, Chelfom Ltd, Pyramid Ltd, Harmony Holdings, Kwara Internal Revenue Service ICMA Professional Services and Duravil Engineering Ltd are some of the Co- sponsors of the event.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Usman Alkali Baba     Maja     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Dan Iya     Salman Jawondo     Oba Abu     Bello Oyebanji     IsDB     Seun Bolaji     Labaeka     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Isiaka Yusuf     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     TIIDELab     Reuben Paraje     Isapa     Gbugbu International Market     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Abdulhakeem Amao     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Modibo Kawu     Peter Amogbonjaye     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Inside Kwara     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Ogidi-Oloje     Lotus Bank     Jawondo     Kunle Okeowo     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Kwara Hotel     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Yusuf Ali     Oniwasi Agbaye     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Park     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Convocation Ceremonies     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Alabi Lawal     Ayedun     Clara Nwachukwu     Sebastine Obasi     Tsaragi-Share     Jalala     Earlyon Technologies     Elekoyangan     Tuesday Assayomo     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Funmi Salau     Oyedepo     Sanusi Abubakar     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     JUSUN     James Ayeni     Omoniyi     Taiwo Joseph     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Lanre Olosunde     Eruku     Doyin Agbamu     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     General Hospital     NNPP     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Bola Olukoju     Yekeen Alabi     Kwara State Pension Board     Abiodun Musa Aibinu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Wasiu Onidugbe     Patience Jonathan     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Cornelius Adebayo     Tafidan Kaiama     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Police Commissioner     Magaji Are     Kayode Ogunlowo     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Akorede     Kwara Restoration Project     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Tsado Manman     Nupe     Iyiola Oyedepo     Nigerian Army     Musa Alhassan Buge     Akeem Olatunji     Ishaq Oloyede     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Sadiq Buhari     KWATMA     Olabode George Towoju     Hijaab     Ayo Adeyemi     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     General Hospital     Idiagbon     Usman Alkali Baba     Ubandoma     Hauwa Nuru     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Jumoke F. Ajao     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Olosi Of Osi     Ajakaye     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Ajike People Support Centre     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Sun Qing Rong     Ijagbo Health Centre     Mutawalle     Abdullahi Biffo     Moji Makanjuola     Kubra Kazum     Col. Taiwo     Offa Descendants Union     Young Progressives Party     Tsaragi     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Nigeria Customs Service     Kisira     Saka Keji     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Mohammed Halidu     Magaji Erubu     Sango-UITH Road     Tosin Saraki     Tsaragi/Share     Sidikat Alaya     Gobir Organization Foundation     Okin Biscuit     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Bamidele Aluko     Umar Adelodun     New Model Police Station     Shettima     Agor     Yekeen Alabi     Ojo Isekuse     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited