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The National Sports Commission (NSC) has pledged afloat organization enactment for Lagos Liga, an innovative backstage shot league redefining grassroots and assemblage shot successful Nigeria.
This committedness was made by the Director General of the NSC, Hon. Bukola Olopade, during a courtesy sojourn by Lagos Liga founder, Joshua J. Omojuwa, to the Commission’s office successful Abuja connected Thursday.
The gathering focused connected the imaginativeness and seven-point docket of Lagos Liga, a bold inaugural designed to merge sports, younker empowerment, and the originative system into a azygous thriving ecosystem.
Hon. Olopade commended the Lagos Liga imaginativeness arsenic being afloat aligned with the mandate fixed to the Commission by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The mandate that Mr. President gave the NSC, is to make an situation and operation that puts wealth into the pockets of Nigerians,” Hon. Olopade said.
“Grassroots initiatives similar the Lagos Liga are astatine the bosom of the President’s reasoning erstwhile helium appointed Mallam Shehu Dikko and I. You mightiness not adjacent realise the afloat meaning of what you are gathering yet, but I spot your imaginativeness clearly. It aligns perfectly with ours, and that’s wherefore we volition propulsion our value down you. Not lone are you creating decent employment for our teeming youths, you are besides reimagining the aboriginal of sports arsenic a viable business.”
Hon. Olopade assured that the NSC would enactment intimately with Lagos Liga to deepen grassroots participation, pull commercialized investment, and guarantee the inaugural evolves into a sustainable nationalist exemplary for sports innovation.
In his response, Omojuwa praised the transformative enactment of the NSC nether the enactment of chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko and D.G, Hon. Bukola Olopade, noting the renewed private-sector assurance successful Nigeria’s sports economy.
“The president and Director General, person been successful bureau for hardly a year, but we person seen their convening powerfulness astatine work, particularly with the backstage sector’s renewed involvement successful backing and supporting sports,” Omojuwa said.
“People aren’t paying attention, but they should. The National Sports Commission, done Mallam Shehu Dikko, and Hon. Bukola Olopade , person gotten governors connected committee to beforehand the improvement of sports infrastructure. This is breathtaking for america astatine Lagos Liga due to the fact that infrastructure is astatine the basal of sports development.”
“This sojourn is an accidental to admit immoderate of the advancement we are seeing astatine play and to beforehand a concern with the Commission. What we are gathering astatine Lagos Liga volition beryllium amended served with the enactment of the Commission.”
Launched by Metamo Sports, Lagos Liga is 1 of Africa’s astir ambitious backstage 7-a-side shot projects, with a ₦100 cardinal prize pool, entertainment-driven instrumentality engagement, and a ngo to commercialize grassroots talent.
Analysts picture the emerging concern betwixt Lagos Liga and the NSC arsenic a caller exemplary for public-private synergy driving Nigeria’s sports system nether the Renewed Hope Agenda, with a absorption connected occupation creation, innovation, and younker inclusion.
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