LEADERSHIP Pledges Support For SWAN@60 Diamond Jubilee

The absorption of LEADERSHIP Group has committed to supporting the upcoming Diamond Jubilee solemnisation of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) @60, scheduled to instrumentality spot from 28th to 31st October 2025 successful Abuja.

The radical managing director, Alhaji Muazu Elazeh, made the pledge during a courtesy sojourn from SWAN’s National President, Mr Isaiah Benjamin, alongside nationalist officers and members of the SWAN @60 organising committee astatine LEADERSHIP’s firm office successful Abuja yesterday.

Elazeh referred to the 60th day of SWAN arsenic an invaluable accidental for reflection and progress, urging the association’s enactment to guarantee the event’s success. He expressed his restitution with the planned activities and commended Mr Benjamin and his squad for their inaugural to honour individuals and organisations that person importantly contributed to the promotion of sports successful Nigeria.

“I commend your leadership. The SWAN @60 solemnisation offers a infinitesimal to bespeak connected our past and see the future. I’m pleased with the itinerary for the event, which includes awards and an investiture, among different highlights. It is indispensable that we recognise and reward individuals who person excelled; specified designation volition promote others and marque recipients consciousness valued. I applaud your enactment for this endeavour and promote you to transmission your efforts into making the lawsuit a resounding success,” Elazeh stated.

He further added, “Regardless of your presence, we would person supported you; however, it is so beneficial that you person travel to us. I guarantee you that we volition supply the indispensable publicity. Simply liaise with our sports exertion and stock your publicity needs, and we volition instrumentality attraction of them. Should you necessitate further assistance beyond this meeting, delight bash not hesitate to interaction us. We are committed to offering each the enactment you need, retired of some motivation work and pridefulness successful your success, arsenic you correspond our name. We look guardant to attending the lawsuit connected 31st October and judge it volition beryllium a large success.”

Echoing this sentiment, Mr Chibuzor Ukaibe, Politics Editor astatine LEADERSHIP, noted that it is the company’s motivation work to enactment SWAN during its Diamond Jubilee. “It is ever a pleasance to big you, and arsenic our Managing Director has highlighted, supporting your occurrence is simply a motivation work for us. You are our ambassadors, representing our marque with pride, and we indispensable bash each we tin to guarantee SWAN prospers. As journalists, we are cardinal stakeholders successful this venture, and you tin trust connected our unwavering support,” Ukaibe affirmed.

Earlier, SWAN’s National President, Mr Isaiah Benjamin, explained that the sojourn to LEADERSHIP’s office was portion of the activities starring up to the Diamond Jubilee solemnisation and to petition the company’s enactment successful promoting the event.

He outlined the SWAN @60 solemnisation schedule, which volition diagnostic a nationalist lecture, a novelty match, an awards gala night, and the investiture of nationalist patrons.

“We are present to sermon our forthcoming Diamond Jubilee celebration. SWAN was established successful 1964, and though we celebrated our 60th day past year, we privation to people it this twelvemonth with a bid of activities, including courtesy visits to media houses, of which this is one.

“Our events volition commence connected 28th October with the accomplishment of nationalist officers from crossed the country, followed by afloat assembly members connected the 29th, which includes the secretaries and chairpersons of our authorities chapters, including the FCT. On the 30th, we volition big our inaugural Sports Summit featuring distinguished speakers to sermon the aboriginal of sports successful Nigeria. That evening, we volition clasp a novelty lucifer betwixt the Federal Executive Council and SWAN/NUJ, pending authorities approval.

“The main item of the solemnisation volition instrumentality spot connected 31st October with our afloat assembly meeting, which volition see the motorboat of our compendium recognising individuals who person made important contributions successful their respective roles arsenic athletes, journalists, sports administrators, and philanthropists, followed by the investiture of 5 nationalist patrons. Additionally, we volition motorboat a two-billion-naira entreaty money to found SWAN House successful Abuja. We are optimistic that with God’s blessing, the lawsuit volition beryllium a implicit success.”