Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Sa’ad Ibrahim
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Sa’ad Ibrahim, has
blamed the country's dwindling performance in sporting activities
particularly football on age cheating.
Speaking through his representative, Rear Admiral J.B Oladimeji, while
declaring open the ongoing Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria, 14th
Chief of the Naval Staff U-14 boys and U-17 girls Football Championship
at the Uyo Township Stadium, Akwa Ibom State last Saturday, Ibrahim said
administrators of football should rise to the challenge of putting an
end to age falsification.
According to the Naval boss the country has been portrayed in a bad
light in the recent past among football playing nations and therefore
enjoined all hands to be on deck at laying a good foundation for the
upcoming children in order to rid the country off corruption.
He commended Governor Godswill Akpabio for accepting to host this
year's edition of the championship and urged other state governments,
corporate entities and well to do individuals to emulate the kind
gesture of the governor.
Meanwhile, in some of the matches decided in the group stages, in the
boys' category, host, Akwa Ibom State trounced the Navy Secondary School
team 5-0 while Osun State lost 1-0 to the Air Force School team. Other
results are Enugu 2-0 Bauchi , Abia 2-2 Delta, Kaduna 0-1 Bayelsa and
Edo 0-0 Anambra.
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