Team Mambila top sports festival for youths in Abuja barracks

Team Mambilla has garnered 620 points to emerge the overall winner at the just concluded 2022 edition of the Abuja Military Barracks Youths Sports Festival organized by the Defence Headquarters.   The competition for boys and girls which featured football, basketball, badminton and volleyball also saw Team Lungi coming second with 480 points while the […]

Team Mambilla has garnered 620 points to emerge the overall winner at the just concluded 2022 edition of the Abuja Military Barracks Youths Sports Festival organized by the Defence Headquarters.  

The competition for boys and girls which featured football, basketball, badminton and volleyball also saw Team Lungi coming second with 480 points while the hosts Team Mogadishu placed third with 400 points.  

Teams NAF Base and Zuma came fourth and fifth with 320 points and 280 points respectively.  

The sports festival which attracted over 500 youths ended on Thursday with the closing ceremony presided over by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor at the remodeled sports complex of Mogadishu Cantonment Sports Complex Abuja.  

Irabor, who was represented by the Director of Education, Defence Headquarters, Rear Adm. Chibuike Azike, explained that the championship was meant to gainfully occupy the youths in the barracks to keep them off social vices and unlock their hidden talents and potential in sports.  

“I have no doubt in my mind that as it has been in the past, new talents would be discovered from this championship amongst whom we expect to have future prospects that would blossom into national and international champions.

“It is pertinent to state that the need to provide an enabling environment for our teeming barracks youths to develop their God-given sports talents, informed the remodeling of this football sports complex that we all are seated today,” he said. 

Earlier, the Director of Sports, Defence Headquarters, AVM Framah Batnah, said the essence of the sports festival is to foster cooperation among the youths in the various barracks.  

Batnah added that the competition will also ensure that the youths pay attention to their physical fitness and healthy living.