Sports Ministry Monitoring Nigerian Athletes – Dare
Regardless of the delay of the National Sports Festival and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics because of the flare-up of Covid-19, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, has guaranteed that the service is observing the athletes.
As per him: "The Nigerian specialists through the Sports Ministry canceled the National Sports Festival as prudent step to check the spread of covid-19. This implies a few of our competitors abroad can never again rehearse in light of the fact that the brandishing offices were closed down.
"We are in contact with every last one of them through a database to screen their arrangements and to comprehend the sort of help they need.
Notwithstanding the deferment, the Adopt-an-Athlete plan is continuous and the assets are going to them. So we are glad that those assets can help them at this period when they can't bring in cash from rivalries.
They are allowed to use on that; they can likewise search for indoor offices where they can rehearse. They can pay to utilize those offices, so there's a consistent commitment with our competitors.
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The Minister demands Nigeria would adhere to 11 games for the Olympics as prior chose, even as assets would be discharged for pending qualifiers which the competitors can go to when the [Covid-19] infection is stemmed. He asks them not to yield in their preparation, even as the Ministry will proceed to design and strategise.
“As we speak, in another two days, 33 of the athletes – both foreign and home-based – are completing a video message to lend their voices to the awareness campaign including myself,” Dare said.
“It’s being produced as we speak. Our athletes from across the world and the home-based will be giving out messages of encouragement.
“We will be prepared whenever the Olympics will hold. What is of the utmost urgency right now is to ensure that Covid-19’s spread is contained so we can all be free again.”
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