NIPOGA: Polytechnic Games to Focus on Youth Empowerment

Senator Iroegbu in Abuja
The organisers of the forthcoming Nigeria Polytechnic Games (NIPOGA), have emphasised on the need for youths to leverage on sports to become entrepreneurs.

The Founder/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of A3 Foundation and promoters of the upcoming sporting festival, Hajiya Aisha Audu-Emeje, stated this yesterday in Abuja at a media interaction to ascertain the level of preparedness of the host school; the Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, in Nasarawa State.

Audu-Emeje said that the foundation was putting up an active social centre at the host school; the Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, in order to produce entrepreneurship minded youths at the end of the games.

According to her, it is important to always engage the youth, saying this would keep them away from negative vices prevalent in the country today.
”I advise youths generally to be engaged in sports festival because it is an avenue to steer the minds away from many negative vices taking the attention of the youths particularly the unemployed ones.

”We want our communities beyond this competition to have successful sports men and women, and the NIPOGA is a venture that would take them to the next height in life because they would be participating as youth entrepreneurs, ” she said.

Earlier, NIPOGA President and Rector Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Professor Abdulkadir Saidu Shetima, noted that an event such as NIPOGA must be properly organised as it could be an incubation ground to scout for both male and female talents for the country..

”We want to have the NIPOGA of international standards that is why we involved professional sports men like Ambassador John Fashanu, media personalities and sports promoters like the A3 Foundation.
”Our school is also putting every innovation in place to have a memorable games festival as well as ensure that NIPOGA won’t be the way it has always been,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ambassador John Fashanu, emphasised the need for grassroots sports, assuring that the games will be different from those held in the past.