Joseph Isokpehi Reporting
For the second time in two months Delta state will play host to another national sports event, this time the Youth Games.
The most successful state at the National sports Festival and the National Youth Games in Nigeria has gotten the nod to host the 7th National Youth Games by the Federal ministry of Sports and Youth development.
Delta state has indicated it’s interest to host the Games at the Dennis Osadebey University, Asaba, Delta state from February 8th – 18th 2023 and was Unanimously agreed by the stakeholders during a virtual meeting that took place January 4, 2023.
In a statement by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Sports and Youth development, Alhaji Ismaila Abubakar, the National Youth Games has since inception becomes a veritable ground for harvesting the huge talents that abound within the country.
” Many of the discovered athletes have been nutured to the elite level by the ministry, where several of them have been excelling at the international stage by posting podium performance for the country”.
According to Abubakar, the Youth Games help to promote National unity, curb Age cheating in sports and youth restiveness as well as establish a standard program for the athletes succession”, amongst others.
The permanent secretary assured that it is poised to ensure that the gains and objectives of the games are sustained hence the ministry’s determination to seek an alternative host venue for the Games in 2023
The choice of Delta state was reached at a meeting of stockholders for the Games which was held on the sidelines of the recently concluded National sports festival in Asaba, Delta state.
It would be recalled that Detla state has won the National Youth Games a record sixth times since the inception of the Games in 2013.
