Asaba 2022: 21st national sports festival to hold in November

The National Council of Sports (NCS) has approved from November 2 to 15, 2022 for the 21st National Sports Festival tagged ‘Asaba 2022’ to take place in Delta State. Speaking yesterday in Asaba, the Delta State Capital, at the Extra-ordinary National Council on Sports meeting, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare commended […]

The National Council of Sports (NCS) has approved from November 2 to 15, 2022 for the 21st National Sports Festival tagged ‘Asaba 2022’ to take place in Delta State.

Speaking yesterday in Asaba, the Delta State Capital, at the Extra-ordinary National Council on Sports meeting, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare commended the NCS for their commitment and steadfastness to sports development.

“Therefore, this meeting today puts us at the cusp of another National Sports Festival (NSF), which we refer to as our own Olympics. The National Council on Sports meeting today has become necessary in order to update Council on developments and deliberations on issues that concern the hosting of the 21st National Sports Festival, which Delta State had earlier won the rights to host in November 2022”.

He also expressed gratitude to the host Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa for his immense contribution to sports development, stating that the feat achieved by the nation at the just concluded Tokyo Olympics won’t have been possible without the 12 athletes adopted by the governor under the Ministry’s Adopt-an-Athlete initiative.

“He single-handedly adopted the largest number of athletes and we are glad that out of the two medals we won, one of them was won by one of the athletes adopted by the governor. That is Ese Brume,” the minister asserted.