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VP Yemi Osinbanjor to provide sports equipment to 2000 schools

 Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will on Friday present sports equipment worth over N574 million to 2,000 primary schools spread across the country, the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF) said on Wednesday.

Habu Gumel, the NLTF Executive Secretary, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja said the equipment are in nine sports, which include football and athletics. Other sports are volleyball, handball, badminton, table tennis, basketball, judo and taekwondo.

``The equipment, worth N574,019,838.64, will be officially unveiled and commissioned before they are presented to the schools at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, with many stakeholders in attendance,’’ Gumel said.

He said the sports equipment would be distributed to the schools to enhance grassroots development in the country, saying the schools’ choice was evenly distributed across the country.

``We have done an equitable distribution in our choice of the schools to receive the equipment, with all the geo-political zones, the 36 states and the FCT all taken care of. ``We involved the states in this, and we also asked them to ensure this is done putting in mind an even spread across their respective three senatorial districts’’

Gumel, a former Director of Facilities in the defunct National Sports Commission (NSC), said NLTF had observed that many of the primary schools across the country did not have sports facilities.

He pointed out that this specifically informed the decision of the Fund, as an intervention agency, to purchase the equipment and therefore enhance grassroots sports development.

``Even we discovered that some of those who have some facilities are not with the right kind of facilities. ``So, our staff have taken notice of this, and we have also chosen the schools on the basis of their needs and how they can and will be able to utilise the equipment.’’

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