Investment In Sports Has Helped Tame Illicit Drug Among Youth In Kwara – Coach, Mogaji

Date: 2024-04-18

Coach Bola Mogaji, executive chairman, Kwara State Sports Commission, KSC, has itemized gains of the unprecedented investment in sports in the state, saying that among other things, increasing participation of youths in sports has helped in managing drug related offences in the state.

Coach Mogaji said that the commission's work in the last three years since the creation of the sports agency helped security agency like the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency to cut illicit drug supply to youths.

“Before we came on board, the stadium was like a distribution point for illicit drugs.

“But with collaboration and massive investments in sports, we were able to reverse this,” he said.

The KSC Boss disclosed that his commission was instrumental to the success of a high stake operation by NDLEA that led to the arrest of coach who who was a kingpin in the supply of drugs to athletes in Ilorin.

Coach Mogaji made this disclosure at the third Sports Hard Talk, put together by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Kwara State chapter.

The sports administrator, also during the interactive session with sports journalists, made clarification on the ongoing renovations in the Indoor Sports Hall of the state stadium saying that the facility will be completed in 12 months.

According to him, N2 billion has been earmarked for the project.

“It's a promise fulfilled by the governor.

“The governor promised to give a significant face lift to the facility and he did,” said Coach Mogaji.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Hakeem Idris     KWAFFA     Aro Yahaya     National Pilot     Omotoso     Iyaloja-General     Moremi High School     KWASEIC     Kaosarah Adeyi     Ibrahim Orire     Shero     Rasaq Jimoh     Abdullahi Samari     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Abatemi Usman     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Mahmud Ajeigbe     NIPR     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Stephen Fasakin     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     IHS Towers     Adekunle David Dunmade     Wasiu Onidugbe     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Aiyedun     Edret Sabi Abel     Ahmad Lawan     Tsaragi     Ibrahim Gambari     Baba Issa Awoye     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Shagari     Mujtabah Bature     James Ayeni     Local Government     Sam Onile     Pacify Labs     Segun Adeniyi     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Sulyman Buhari     Ogidi-Oloje     Share/Tsaragi     Just Event Online     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Arandun     Senate President     Yashikira     Kehinde Baale     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Sardauna     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Kulende-UITH     Oloriegbe     Facemasks     Inside Kwara     Mahe Abdulkadir     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Convocation Ceremonies     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Kwara Polytechnic     Ilorin Emirate     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Okin High School     Abraysports FC     Baruba     Adisa Logun     Hamidu Olowo     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Buari Edun     Saba Jibril     Ile Arugbo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara-SAPZ Project     Peter Obi     Salman Alada     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Yekini Adio     Emir Of Yashikira     Ike Ekweremadu     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Femi Oladiji     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Alabe     Offa Grammer School     Bolaji Gambari     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Funmilayo Zubair     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Akeem Olatunji     Magaji Erubu     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Hussein Olokooba     Ilorin South Constituency     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Ishola Abdullahi     Kwara Central     Sheikh Ariyibi     Ilorin South     Aminat Omodara     Ilorin Metro Park     Tope Daramola     Rebecca Bake     Sa\'adu Gambari     KSIRS     Kubra Kazum     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Adanla-Irese     Kale Belgore     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Convocation Ceremonies     Oke-Ogun     Amina El-Imam     Hakeem Idris     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Michael Nzekwe     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Idi-Ape     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     School Of Nursing     Unilorin     Suleiman Idris     Lanre Issa Onilu     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Adebayo Salami     NaAllah     Chief Imam Of Offa     Mutawali     Pilgrims Board     Isapa     Kwara State Television     HICA     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Okiki     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Facemasks     Falokun-Oja     Abraham Ojo     Adeola Abraham     Issa Manzuma     Bello Abubakar     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Awodun     KWASSIP     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo