A United Kingdom-based Nigerian fan of Manchester United of England, Mr Sunday Ogunbote was this week in Surulere, Lagos to assist his daughter’s feminine gender growth enterprise.
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Though the soft-spoken Man U fan identified that he didn’t journey to Lagos purposefully for the two-day programme that occurred at The Steady Sports activities Advanced on Bode Thomas Highway, Surulere, he made use of his presence on the town for a private matter.
Whereas revealing that he’s not associated to fashionable home soccer coach, Gbenga Ogunbote, the proud father additional advised Sports247 that he was extremely excited seeing a really giant variety of feminine college students, instructors, officers, journalists and friends current on the two-day programme, which was tagged Targets For Ladies Management Summit.
He additionally showered encomiums on his daughter, Damilola Ogunbote, for the zeal and dedication she places into the mission, which he revealed has created an identical impression in India, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Cameroon, USA and different nations; with nice expectations of going farther in years to return.
“It’s been a beautiful expertise being right here with my spouse and pals to assist my daughter on this programme,” the amiable ‘father of the day’ disclosed.
“It’s an excellent programme, which she is utilizing to empower ladies from varied secondary faculties within the communities round Surulere; and she or he has beforehand completed it in another nations.
“The primary focus is to show ladies to have a say in any group the place they dwell. It helps them to develop a whole lot of self-confidence in themselves and discover ways to grow to be accountable leaders of the longer term.
“I’ve adopted what my daughter has been doing over time together with her mission. She has touched many nations, and the message she is all the time spreading is that it’s about time that folks of the feminine gender are given management roles in all societies of the world.”
Ogunbote was readily available to current trophies, medals and certificates to the most effective performing faculties on Day 2 of the enterprise, which had a complete of 300 college students in attendance – 30 for every day from 5 totally different faculties.
The scholars have been taken by classroom actions in management expertise, sensible drills in soccer strategies on the pitch and 4 matches for every faculty in a mini-competition of 10-minute video games that climaxed actions on each days.
Neighborhood Secondary School gained the primary competitors on Tuesday, with Iponri Property Excessive School ending second; whereas Clegg Ladies Junior Excessive School emerged high of the go browsing Wednesday, adopted by Itolo Ladies Junior Secondary School.
