JAMB sponsors tertiary institutions football tourney with N25m

The first edition of the Tertiary Institutions Football
Competition sponsored by the Joint Admissions
Matriculation Board will hold between July 23 and
July 30 in Ilorin.
The Kwara Commissioner for Sports and Youth
Development , Kale Ayo , told newsmen in Ilorin on
Tuesday that the examination body had approved
N25m to sponsor the competition .
Ayo who is the Chairman , Main Organising
Committee said the participants would be drawn
from those who excel in NUGA , NIPOGA, COEGA and
innovative entrepreneur institutions tournaments .
He commended the JAMB Registrar , Prof . Is -haq
Oloyede, for allowing the body to collaborate with
the Kwara State Government to sponsor an annual
JAMB National Tertiary Institutions Football
Championship.
Ayo , however, appealed to wealthy individuals and
corporate organisations to emulate JAMB and
sponsor competitions in other sports such as
athletics , judo, squash, badminton , cycling and
swimming .
“ This should be part of their Corporate Social
Responsibility ( CSR ), ’’ he said .
Also speaking , the Commissioner for Tertiary
Education , Science and Technology in Kwara, Dr
Aminah Ahmed , said sports should continue with its
role of a unifying factor in the society .
She encouraged Nigerians, especially students of
higher institutions in the state , to always engage in
sports activities for physical and mental fitness.
The state ’ s Director of Sports , Tunde Kazeem ,
disclosed that three venues would be used in Ilorin
for the competition while 400 players and officials
were expected at the seven - day event.
He listed qualifiers for the tournament as the semi-
finalists from the NUGA , NIPOGA and NICEGA
football events , two institutions from hosts Kwara
and other two from innovative entrepreneur
institutions .
`This makes it a competition for teams from 16
higher institutions , ’’ Kazeem said .
The Director of Sports said the top three winners
would go home with certificates and medals while
assuring that adequate security and medical care
would be provided during the competition .
He added that draws for the competition would be
done a month before the event in Ilorin .
In his contribution , Secretary of the MOC and
General Manager of Radio Kwara, Abdullateef
Adedeji, promised that the Committee would
organise a befitting competition which stakeholders
would be proud of .