Talents Hunt: Governor Eno Urges Ministries To Revitalise School Sports As Festival Ends

Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has instructed the authorities ministries of Education and Sports to collaborate with the Ministerial Organising Committee of the precocious concluded State Sports Festival to reinstate sporting activities successful superior and secondary schools.

He emphasised the value of reviving defunct inter-house and inter-school sporting competitions.
Speaking astatine the closing and medal presumption ceremonial of the State Sports Festival, which concluded implicit the weekend, the politician highlighted the necessity of identifying talents astatine an aboriginal property to alteration them to radiance connected nationalist and planetary platforms.

He described the sports assemblage arsenic a multi-billion-dollar planetary industry, integral to the sports tourism constituent of the ARISE Agenda blueprint of his administration.

“I privation the Ministerial Organising Committee to enactment with the State Ministry of Education to revive inter-house sports crossed each our schools successful this State. That is wherever we tin nurture talent. We tin drawback them young.

“In the past, we utilized to sojourn different secondary schools for sports competitions.
I would similar to spot the instrumentality of these inter-secondary schoolhouse sports festivals. I tin archer you that this is wherever we discovered immoderate of our talented stars abroad. We volition guarantee backing is available, but we indispensable beforehand some athletics and tourism. This volition go a regular lawsuit successful our calendar.

“We purpose to pat into this immense manufacture and observe caller talents who volition correspond america astatine large sporting events. The taxable of this festival—’Nurturing Talents, Promoting Tourism’—captures our strategical imaginativeness successful this regard. Tourism is simply a cardinal pillar of this medication arsenic we hole our State for maturation beyond oil.

“We expect the commissioning of our ARISE Resorts successful December, which volition diagnostic world-class amenities, including a 9-hole play people and some indoor and outdoor sporting pavilions,” helium stated.
Governor Eno noted that the past sports festival successful the State was held 15 years ago, describing the 2025 variation arsenic a revitalisation of sports successful the area.

“Over the past week, we person brought unneurotic 3,600 youths from each 31 section authorities areas, who, successful an inspiring show of unity, brotherhood, sportsmanship, and peace, competed for honours successful 18 idiosyncratic sports and 5 squad sports. The lawsuit has, by each accounts, been a resounding success,” helium added.

Governor Eno congratulated each the athletes who took portion successful the week-long event, stating, “You and the State are each winners; the youths are each winners, and the section authorities chairmen, who consistently supported their athletes and cheered them to victory, are winners too.”

He besides congratulated athletes from the State who participated successful the caller National Youth Games successful Asaba, Delta State, commending them for winning 11 golden medals, 9 metallic medals, and 10 bronze medals, arsenic good arsenic achieving 7th spot wide retired of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory that competed.

“We are rewarding each golden medalists with N500,000 each, N250,000 for silver, and N150,000 for bronze medalists. We volition supply further grooming astatine the Sports Academy successful Eket, a strategical concern aimed astatine discovering, preparing, and exposing our youths to vie successful sporting events, utilising modern sporting instrumentality we person acquired for the Academy.”

Medallists from the sports festival, which produced 156 golden medallists, 156 metallic medallists, and 198 bronze medallists crossed 18 competitory sports, volition besides person rewards: Gold medal: N500,000; Silver medal: N250,000; Bronze medal: N150,000.