In a major step towards the development of sports activities growth in Gombe State, the proposed Video games Village the place athletes can be housed for the maiden Inter-Secondary Athletics Championship is sort of accomplished and prepared for commissioning.
The maiden Gombe Inter-Secondary Athletics Championship, ‘tagged Gombe 2024’, is scheduled to carry from October 18 to 24, 2024 inside the primary bowl of Gombe Pantami Stadium.
Chairman of Gombe State AthIetics Affiliation (GSAA), Ahmed Shuaibu Gara-Gombe, made this identified after chairing a gathering of the Fundamental organising committee (MOC) members with sub-committees in Gombe lately.
Gara-Gombe, who can be the CEO of Inexperienced White Inexperienced (GWG) Sports activities Middle Ltd, the sponsor of the mission, expressed pleasure for work performed on the Video games Village, saying the athIetes will discover their lodging on the video games village very comfy for leisure and engender higher efficiency.
Whereas thanking the varied committees dealing with the mission for the job effectively performed after receiving briefings from them, Gombe urged the committees to expedite motion on different tasks for fast completion, noting that the mission already had price thousands and thousands of Naira.
“Historical past is within the making, that is the primary time in Gombe State a person is taking over a mission from the scratch for the good thing about younger proficient athIetes,” Gombe mentioned.
He recall the profit that accrued to Gombe State when he sponsored Major Colleges AthIetics Championships the place athIetes that represented Gombe State on the seventh Nationwide Youth Video games in Asaba had been drawn from.
Apparently glad for the achievement, the sports activities promoter insisted that the federal government ought to encourage personal company our bodies investments in sports activities by way of recognition for his or her effort.
On the significance of the athIetics championships, former Gombe United soccer Membership chairman maintained that younger proficient can be found and sports activities consciousness will develop in addition to infrastructures growth.
He knowledgeable that the eagerness for sports activities and skills discovery is what motivated him to embark on the mission of sports activities sponsorship.
