By Ikemefuna Asika, Awka
Anambra State sports festival has been scheduled to kick off from Sunday April 17 2024.
The Chairman Anambra State Sports Development Commission, Estate Patrick Onyedum stated this during the inauguration of the 18-man School Sports Festival Main Organizing Committee in Awka.
He said the competition which would be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education would hold in three categories including U12 for primary schools, U14 for junior secondary school and U18 for Senior secondary schools.
The Chairman said the games approved for the festival are Athletics, Basketball, Chess, Cricket, Football, Ncho, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Scrabble, Swimming and Volleyball
Onyedum announced that registration and submission of forms would be from March 11 to April 8 and that Competition would start from Local Government Areas through Senatorial Districts up to the State finals.
He noted that the school sports festival which was reintroduced in 2023 after a decade was one of the 5-Point Agenda of Gov. Chukwuma Soludo on sports.
“One of the gains of the first edition was the discovery of many talents that represented the state and won many medals at the last National Youth Games.
“I want to thank Mr Governor for kindly supporting them; last edition which was a huge success, just as we promise that it would be better this time around” he said.
