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Games
By Mohammed Lawal
Zaria (Kaduna State), Feb. 21, 2017 (NAN) Prof. Rabi’u Adamu, the National President, Research Institutes’ Games Association of Nigeria (RIGAN), on Tuesday, said three institutes were bidding for the hosting right of the 2017 edition of the games.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna State that the institutes are: Institute for Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR), Kaduna, and the National Metrological Development Council (NMDC), Jos, Plateau State.
Adamu, a Crop Science Professor at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, said that the RIGAN council would meet
in March in Jos to deliberate on the host institute.
He explained that the council would, during the Jos meeting, decide and elect the institute that would host the 2017 RIGAN games.
Adamu recalled that RIGAN, founded in April 1981 with less than 10 research institutes as members, now has more than 35 member-institutes across the country.
The president said the game was expected to feature 13 different events, including football, volleyball, handball athletics and indoor sports.
He added that the biannual event was meant to foster unity among Nigerian research institutes through sporting activities.
The 2015 RIGAN games tagged “Let’s go Zazzau 2015” was hosted by the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Zaria. (NAN)
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Edited by Yakubu Uba/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu