In a major step towards the development of sports activities growth in Gombe State, the proposed Video games Village the place athletes might be housed for the maiden Inter-Secondary Athletics Championship is nearly 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 recognized after chairing a gathering of the Fundamental organising committee (MOC) members with sub-committees in Gombe lately.
Gara-Gombe, who can also be the CEO of Inexperienced White Inexperienced (GWG) Sports activities Middle Ltd, the sponsor of the mission, expressed pleasure for work completed on the Video games Village, saying the athIetes will discover their lodging on the video games village very snug for rest and engender higher efficiency.
Whereas thanking the varied committees dealing with the mission for the job nicely completed after receiving briefings from them, Gombe urged the committees to expedite motion on different initiatives for fast completion, noting that the mission already had price tens of millions of Naira.
“Historical past is within the making, that is the primary time in Gombe State a person is taking on a mission from the scratch for the advantage of younger proficient athIetes,” Gombe stated.
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 have been drawn from.
Apparently blissful 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 means of recognition for his or her effort.
On the significance of the athIetics championships, former Gombe United soccer Membership chairman maintained that younger proficient could be found and sports activities consciousness will develop in addition to infrastructures growth.
He knowledgeable that the eagerness for sports activities and abilities discovery is what motivated him to embark on the mission of sports activities sponsorship.