Nigeria places too much emphasis on football - Adedoja

Date: 2012-04-02

FORMER Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Professor Taoheed Adedoja has revealed that over emphasis on the game of football contributed to the dwindling trend of sports development in the country.

Professor Adedoja made this pronouncement while speaking with sports writers at the ongoing 13th edition of West African University Games (WAUG) at University of Ilorin sports complex, Kwara State.

The ex-minister stated that too much emphasis were being placed on the round leather game to the detriment of other sports in which he believed that Nigeria has abundant talents that could be harness for greater limelight.

He thereby charged the NSC and other stakeholders to embark on developmental programmes that can make other sports more competitive and sought after rather than football that has taken the shines away from others.

Also, he urged the administrators to fashion out ways of improving their various sports and make it of international repute while sighting the case of FIFA who has succeeded over the years to market the game and created a niche for the game widely regarded as king of all sports across the globe.

"Though in Nigeria, we have talents across the federation, but the problem is that every corner in the country, football is being played all round while other sports failed to enjoy the kind of available facilities like football, administrators should find a lasting solution to improve their games as being done in the international sports".

"Football has gained international recognition and that is why it is rated higher than combination of many other sports, every nation belong to FIFA because that is the only avenue to gather momentum in the world of sports. 

Some nations do not take part in other sports apart from football, because they want to belong to global society in which football commands respect."

"Football makes some countries to get favour internationally because of the significance of the game unlike others, but my own view is that adequate attention should be given to other sports and not only football, as this will facilitate speedy development of other games in the near future". He opined.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Islamiya Abdulraheem     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Olaitan Buraimoh     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Ojuekun Sarumi     AGF Abdulrazaq     Henry Olaosebikan     Bayo Onimago     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     SGBN     Saliu Ajia     Olabode Towoju     Lanre Aremu     Magaji Are     CT Ayeni     Nurudeen Mohammed     Kisra     Sambo Murtala     Sayomi     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Samari     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Abubakar B.M     Post-utme     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Mukhtar Shagaya     Akeem Olatunji     Kwara University Of Education     AbdulRauf Keji     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Mumeen Lah     Innocent Okoye     Okoolowo     Suleiman Abubakar     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Aso Ofi     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Transition Implementation Committee     Harrison Osauwagboe     Share-Tsaragi     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Aso-ofi     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Rebecca Bake     Taofeeq Olateju     Kale Ayo     Ramadan     Idiagbon     MMWG     Otoge     Congress For National Consensus     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Radio Kwara     Monthly Sanitation     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Ayo Opadokun     Oye Tinuoye     Jani Ibrahim     Abraysports FC     Salami Adekunle     Oba Abdulrahim     NIPR     Maimunat Oloriegbe     IYA YUSUF     Suleiman Idris     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Muhammed Danjuma     Hamza Usman     Igbomina     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     NaAllah     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Segun Abifarin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Babaloja-General     Toyin Falola     John Kehinde Salako     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Afolayan     Council Of The Wise     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Saad Omo Iya     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ilorin Like-Minds     Tosho Yaqub     Taofeek Sanusi     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Sherif Shagaya     Omu Aran     Amoyo     Muhammed Aliyu     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Shehu Adaramaja     NNPP     Idofin     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Magaji Are     Olayinka Olaogun     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Sobi Hill     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Bashir Badawi     Babajide Ajayi     Oke-Odo     Aisha Gobir     Aminu Adisa Logun     Femi Oladiji     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Mohammed Abdulahi     Ilorin West     Malete     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Tunde Saad     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Iliasu     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Idowu Aremu     IHS     Grillo     Binta Sulyman     Usman Alkali Baba     Balogun-Ojomu     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Matthew Okedare     Kwarareports     CACOVID Palliatives     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Olatomiwa Williams     Senate President     PPS     IsDB     Yahya Mohammed     Ben Duntoye     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Yekini Adio     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Ola Falade     Raheem Adaramaja     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Offa Descendants Union