The National Sports Commission, NSC, has taken a huge step to structure the Sport of Netball in Nigeria by appointing a seasoned Sports administrator, Dr Oluwatoyin Aluko as the President of the Nigeria Netball Federation, NNF.
Making the announcement on Wednesday, the Director General of the NSC, Honourable Bukola Olopade, said it’s time Nigeria established a sustainable structure for the growth of Netball in Nigeria.
He said Netball is one of the World’s fastest growing sports and Nigeria has many top professional athletes in the diaspora who are doing the sport at the highest level.
“As part of Mr President’s mandate to build a sustainable Sports economy, is creating a well organised system where Nigerians either home or abroad can be proud to represent the country in their specialised sports”.
” And currently based on our research, over thirty Nigerians are gainfully playing the Sport of Netball in some of the top Netball leagues in Europe and in South Africa”.
” It means we can have a very formidable Netball team which can add to our podium strength, if we have a well organised Federation for the Sport. Dr Aluko is a former Netball player who knows everything about the Sport.This is a big step that we have taken and in days ahead we will announce the entire board members”, he added.
The newly appointed President, Dr Oluwatoyin Aluko is a former Netball player who is currently the President of the Association of Former Female Athletes of Nigeria, AFFAN.
She is an accomplished national athlete, coach and sport administrator with over 45 years of experience.