ABUJA – Alhaji Abdullahi Sule, the Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Bida, says necessary facilities have been provided for the success of Nigeria Polytechnic Games (NIPOGA), which will be hosted by the institution.
The rector, in an interview in Abuja on Sunday, said in the 18th edition of the games holding between November 5 and November 15, athletes for the scheduled 16 sports events would compete on standard platforms.
Sule said security of lives and property of all the athletes, officials and visitors to the games will be given special attention by its Local Organising Committee.
He also said that although the Federal Polytechnic, Bida would not want to win at all costs; the institution’s athletes were preparing well to emerge the winner. [eap_ad_1] According to the rector, the essence of the games, among other gains, is to give the teeming youth in the tertiary institutions avenue to cool off from the lecture room activities.
He noted that the Fund Raising Committee of the games had been able to get donations from sports-loving Nigerians at a dinner held in Abuja on Sept. 18.
He said the committee received donations of N32.7 million, comprising cheques for N2.8 million and promissory notes for N29.9 million.
He said the highest donor was Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who donated N10 million, acknowledging the roles of Korean Embassy, the old students association of the school and Tertiary Education Trust Fund, among others, in the preparation for the competition.
He described NIPOGA as a bi-annual sporting event that remains a fertile ground for catching world class athletes and sports men and women.
NIPOGA was inaugurated in in 1976 and The Polytechnic, Ibadan, served as the maiden host of the competition which has become a household name in the sports economy of the country.
The title of the 18th edition of the game is NIPOGA-Bida-2014. (NAN)
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