The Nationwide Institute for Sports activities (NIS) engaged over 100 younger athletes and coaches in Ogun State by way of a one-day intensive coaching and training clinic at Gateway Worldwide, Sagamu.
The initiative, themed “Coaching and Teaching Clinic in Soccer for Grassroots Sports activities Growth in Ogun State”, was organized in partnership with Senator Solomon Adeola Yayi.
Main the NIS delegation, Director Common and CEO Comrade Philip Shaibu described the programme as a strategic intervention aligned with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Mr. President has made it clear that Nigerian youths have to be empowered, engaged, and positioned to succeed. Sports activities is among the strongest platforms to attain that imaginative and prescient,” Shaibu stated. “By way of structured grassroots improvement like this, we’re giving younger folks actual alternatives to construct careers, create wealth, and contribute meaningfully to nationwide improvement.”
College students from numerous faculties and sports activities academies, alongside their coaches, participated within the seminar designed to strengthen technical capability, nurture expertise, and reposition grassroots sports activities for sustainable development.
Shaibu emphasised that sports activities is not simply leisure however a world trade value over $60 billion. “Nigeria has the expertise to faucet into this monumental alternative,” he stated, noting that many individuals aspire to skilled careers in basketball within the U.S. and soccer in high European leagues such because the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A.
He lauded Senator Yayi for his unwavering help for youth-focused initiatives, highlighting that comparable NIS programmes have been carried out throughout the South-West and nationwide.
Representing the Senator, Chief Segun Ojolowo-Ojuko defined that though the lawmaker was engaged in official duties in Abuja, he stays dedicated to youth improvement. “This isn’t the primary teaching clinic. Comparable programmes have been held in Ibadan and Lagos, and extra are deliberate throughout Ogun State,” he stated.
Ogun State basketball chief coach Jonathan Fagbemi described the initiative as well timed and impactful, whereas Mrs. Kehinde Oladesu, a trainer from Ansar Ud Deen Complete Faculty, Ota, praised the programme for together with college kids in structured sports activities improvement.
The seminar concluded with the distribution of full soccer and basketball kits to the taking part youths, whereas coaches obtained coaching balls to help ongoing follow of their faculties and academies.
High NIS officers current included Dr. Mike Majoroh (Guide), Dr. Pleasure Maiyaki (Appearing Head of Teaching), Coach Iorsue Jeremiah Kuhwa (Soccer), Coach Lidah Taye Mary (Basketball), and Coach Adamu Bello (Health Coach), amongst others.
