GSS Ilorin wins 14th Nestle Milo Basketball tourney
The Kwara state team defeated Government Secondary School Minna with 42 point to 33 point in the male final while Queen of the Rosary,Gboko, Benue state defeated her counterpart, Government Model School, Niger in the female final with 48 points to 29.
While urging the Nestle Milo to continue to invest in the grass root sport development, the Kwara state Commissioner for Sports, Barrister Anthony Kayode Towoju in his address noted that the company gesture has boost the morale and discipline of the students across the country.
Towoju, who challenged other corporate organization to emulate the Nestle Milo example, said sport has gone beyond mere just playing but an investment which could turn tenanted children to billionaire and most populous person in the world.
He appealed to the participants to take the advantage they have to ensure they redeem the image of the country beyong its shore.
In her speech, the brand Manager of the company, Mrs. Funmi Osineye said the competition was designed to discover and nurture the sporting skills of future champion.
"We have witnessed a 25 percent increase in the number of participants in this year's edition with 5,000 schools participating. In addition, we have also expanded the geographic scope of the competition to include AkureLokoja and Ilorin which are all new venue."
She added that the winners in the boy's and girl's category would go home with N30,000 prize money while second and third placed team would go home with N25,000 and N20,000 respectively.
Twelve teams in both male and female categories would emerge from the zonal qualifiers to represent their zones in the national finals in Lagos.
Government Secondary School, Ilorin, representing Kwara, won the boys' category, while Queen of the Rosary College, Gboko, Benue, won the girls' category.
Kwara, Benue, Niger, Plateau, Nassarawa and Kebbi participated in the North Central Conference of the championships.
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