The Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Grassroots Sports activities Improvement, Adeyinka Anthony Adeboye, on Friday, February 6, 2026, led a high-level delegation from his workplace on a strategic engagement go to to the French Embassy in Nigeria, geared toward strengthening partnership and collaboration in grassroots sports activities improvement.
The delegation was warmly acquired by Ms. Ketty Regis, Attachée de Coopération on the French Embassy, who hosted the assembly on behalf of the French Ambassador to Nigeria.
Throughout the engagement, Ms. Regis outlined the French Embassy’s in depth programmes that use sports activities as a significant software for youth empowerment, social inclusion, schooling, and neighborhood improvement.
She emphasised France’s long-standing dedication to leveraging sports activities diplomacy to foster unity, self-discipline, and alternative, notably amongst younger individuals throughout Africa.
She highlighted France’s assist for initiatives in teaching schooling, sports activities administration, youth alternate programmes, neighborhood sports activities tasks, and institutional partnerships, noting that sports activities stays a strong platform for constructing character and strengthening bilateral relations.
Discussions on the assembly centered on present and potential collaborative sports activities programmes, with sports activities recognized as a significant space of cooperation between each nations.
Key areas explored included youth improvement, community-based sports activities initiatives, coach schooling, institutional capability constructing, expertise alternate programmes, and using sports activities as a software for social inclusion and diplomacy.
Talking on the assembly, Hon. Adeboye pressured that grassroots sports activities stay central to Nigeria’s nationwide improvement agenda below the management of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“This go to is about constructing significant partnerships and deepening collaboration.
Grassroots sports activities are the inspiration of nationwide success, and thru worldwide cooperation, we are able to create sustainable alternatives that positively impression Nigerian youths and communities,” Adeboye mentioned.
He added that collaboration with international companions equivalent to France aligns with the Federal Authorities’s broader imaginative and prescient of youth empowerment, social cohesion, and long-term sports activities improvement.
Each events expressed optimism on the finish of the assembly, agreeing to discover concrete frameworks for continued partnership, collaboration, and programme implementation, notably in coaching, alternate initiatives, and grassroots sports activities competitions.
The go to additional underscores the SSA’s dedication to positioning grassroots sports activities as a strong platform for youth improvement, worldwide collaboration, and nationwide development.
