President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has
assured Nigerians, especially sports enthusiast that the country would
no longer abandon past heroes and heroines.
President Buhari gave the assurance in his speech at the unveiling of
Nigeria‘s sixty Sports Icons, one of the events scheduled to celebrate
the country at sixty, at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Ekwi Ajide of our Abuja Bureau reports that the President also said
that the recent re-categorization of sports from recreation to
business was targeted at ensuring that professionals benefit fully
from their talent and hard work.
According to the President, the event was the beginning of a
deliberate and sustained effort to correct the errors of past neglect
of sports heroes and heroines.
He said the country would continue to lend the necessary support to
the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development towards the
actualization of the dreams of sports men and women.
He stressed that sports no doubt has the potentials to create job
opportunities for the teeming youths, take them off the streets and
grow gross domestic earnings.
The President reminded the nation that talents in the earlier periods
were anchored on the die-hard Nigerian spirit, resilient and
patriotism of the great sports heroes and heroines and assured those,
who were not listed among the chosen sixty sports icons that their
labour and love for Nigeria is not in vain.

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