Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has vowed to further uplift standards of sports in the state, even as he rewarded Team Nasarawa with various cash awards, for their exploits during the just concluded 20th edition of the National Sports Festival, in Benin City, Edo State.
Governor Sule said this during the special reception organized in honour of the contingent, the governor congratulated Team Nasarawa athletes who won various medals at the two-week sports fiesta, urging them to sustain the spirit, going forward.
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The governor assured that his administration would do everything possible to address some of the major challenges of the athletes and sports generally in the state for optimum performance in subsequent events.
Sule gave one million naira to each of the gold medalists, seven hundred and fifty thousand naira to each of the silver medalists and five hundred thousand naira to each of the bronze medalists, while coaches of the medalist athletes received the sum of two million naira.
Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Othman Bala, disclosed that the state’s contingent won a total of twenty-two medals which include five gold, four silver and thirteen bronze medals in karate, kung-fu wushu, para athletics, judo, taekwondo, scrabble, dart, wrestling, boxing, trado-sports and marathon race.
(Editor Paul Akhagbemhe)
