In a major step towards the development of sports activities growth in Gombe State, the proposed Video games Village the place athletes shall 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 principle 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 Most important organising committee (MOC) members with sub-committees in Gombe not too long ago.
Gara-Gombe, who can also be the CEO of Inexperienced White Inexperienced (GWG) Sports activities Heart Ltd, the sponsor of the undertaking, expressed pleasure for work accomplished on the Video games Village, saying the athIetes will discover their lodging on the video games village very comfy for rest and engender higher efficiency.
Whereas thanking the varied committees dealing with the undertaking for the job effectively accomplished after receiving briefings from them, Gombe urged the committees to expedite motion on different initiatives for fast completion, noting that the undertaking already had price hundreds of thousands of Naira.
“Historical past is within the making, that is the primary time in Gombe State a person is taking over a undertaking from the scratch for the good thing about younger gifted athIetes,” Gombe stated.
He recall the profit that accrued to Gombe State when he sponsored Major Faculties AthIetics Championships the place athIetes that represented Gombe State on the seventh Nationwide Youth Video games in Asaba had been drawn from.
Apparently completely happy for the achievement, the sports activities promoter insisted that the federal government ought to encourage non-public 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 gifted can be found and sports activities consciousness will develop in addition to infrastructures growth.
He knowledgeable that the fervour for sports activities and abilities discovery is what motivated him to embark on the undertaking of sports activities sponsorship.