The Nigeria Olympic Committee held its Executive Board Meeting in Abuja on May 24, 2023, at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) in Abuja and reached important decisions to pave a better way forward for the board.
A Communique signed by Tony Nezianya, the Public Relations Officer of the NOC notes that the committee was painstaking in reaching hard decisions on crucial matters.
The committee jointly agreed with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development that Team Nigeria will participate in various international sporting events, including the African Beach Games, the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad & Tobago, and the ANOC World Beach Games in Bali, Indonesia.
It is the belief of the Committee that these foregoing Games would help the federations in their preparations ahead of two important Games next year – the African Games to be staged by Ghana in March 2024 and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games being hosted by France.
With these decisions, it is evident that the NOC has loaded international programmes ahead of the Paris Games.
In between, there are many Olympic qualifying Championships to be attended by National Sports Federations for them to make the stiff qualifying standards for the Paris Games.
The president, Habu Gumel, then, unveiled two major properties — the newly re-developed infrastructures – the Amuwo Odofin Olympic Village where some sporting facilities – a football pitch, Tennis, Volleyball and Basketball courts, an Indoor hall for multi-purpose uses, where sports and Cultural Centre can be held under one roof. The facility also has an Athletics running tracks.
The President announced to Members that five hectares of land have been allocated to the NOC by the Federal Capital Authority; the NOC has taken possession of all the relevant documents.
“The land will house the Committee’s permanent Secretariat and some sporting infrastructure as well as other complementing facilities. It will be fenced to protect the property.”
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