No fewer than 2,367 school students are expected to participate in Gombe State Inter Secondary Schools Athletic Competition.
The Main Organizing Committee (MOC) for the programme disclosed this during a during a meeting held at the GOFCECON HOTEL conference hall.
Announcing preparations for the upcoming event, the MOC constituted seven sub-committees to ensure a successful competition to oversee the event.
The constituted sub-committees include Technical, Ceremonial, Entertainment, and Training; Media and Publicity; Accreditation and Security; Accommodation, Transportation, and Logistics; Medical and Welfare; General Duties; and Secretariat.
According to the MOC, capacity training will be compulsory for all secondary school game masters prior to the competition.
Additionally, the committee has extended an invitation to one private and one public secondary school from each of the six states in the North East Region to participate in an invitational relay at the finals.
According to the MOC, Amany secondary school across the country willing to participate in the invitational relay can also register.
The competition will feature cadets, youths, and 65 U-20 registered schools, with approximately 2,367 school pupils participating.
The MOC also announced that participating schools will enjoy free accommodation and feeding.
The committees have been urged to submit their budget proposals within seven days.
In a communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Main Organizing Committee and Gombe State Athletics Association boss, Hon. Ahmed Shaibu Gara Gombe, the following robust deliberations were reached as seven sub-committees were constituted as follows:
Technical, Ceremonial, Entertainment, and Training
Zainab Ishaku Adamu – Ministry of Youth and Sports, Chairman
Sani Nuhu Abdullahi – NAATO, Member
Isa Dauda Zambuk – GWG, Member
Prince Simon Ayuba – GWG, Secretary
Media and Publicity
Mal Haruna Zakari – GAA, Chairman
Uzor Odigbo – GWG, Member
Abraham Fashakin – North East Times, Member
Yakubu Maikudi – NTA Gombe, Secretary
Accreditation and Security
ASP Jauro Usman – NPF, Chairman
SP I Jerry Ketos Turawa – Gostec, Member
ASC Ishaku Ibrahim – NCDC, Secretary
Accommodation, Transportation, and Logistics
Mal Ali Doho – Ministry of Education, Chairman
Mr. Adamu Tanko – NAPPS, Member
Obehi Kingspin – NAPPS, Secretary
Medical and Welfare
Mohammed Abubakar Ahmed – Ministry of Health, Chairman
Red Cross, Member
Stephen Agboh – NAPPS, Secretary
General Duties
Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe – CEO, GWG, Chairman
Mal Musa Garba – GAA, Secretary
Secretariat
Ibrahim Audu – Ministry of Education, Chairman
Mohammed Musa Baba – Northeast Times, Member
Haruna Isah Kalshingi – GWG, Secretary
Additionally, capacity training will be compulsory for all secondary school game masters prior to the competition.
The MOC also decided to invite one private and one public secondary school from each of the six states in the Northeast Region for an Invitational Relay at the finals. They also extended an invitation to any secondary school across the country willing to participate in the Invitational Relay to register their school for boys or girls.
There will be free accommodation and feeding for the schools that register for the Invitational Relay.
The competition will include cadets, youths, and sixty-five (65) U-20 registered schools, with approximately two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven (2,367) school pupils participating.
The committees were urged to present their budget proposals within seven days.
