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Sports
By Uche Bibilari/Jacinta Nwachukwu
Gwagwalada (FCT), Nov. 2, 2016 (NAN) Some schools in Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have urged the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF) to provide them with more equipment.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government has been donating sports equipment to about 1,000 primary schools in the six geo-political zones of the country through the fund.
The made the call while reacting to the gesture by the government in interviews with NAN on Wednesday in Gwagwalada, Abuja.
Correspondents of NAN who visited some of the primary schools in the council area report that some of them benefited from the gesture while some have yet to.
At Pilot Science Primary School, Gwagwalada, the Head Teacher, Ahmed Shangalo, said the donated kits would help to improve youth and sports development but noted that the school needed more equipment.
Shangalo listed the materials given to the school to include mats, footballs, shot-putt, first aid box and javelin.
He added that the school still needed more of such sports materials, especially mats for judo, taekwondo and karate and soccer balls.
Shangalo also solicited for more support from other relevant organisations and other levels of government to enable the school boost its sports and youth development.
“We need more volleyballs, table tennis, mats and footballs because we need to develop all sports and because the school is highly populated,’’ he said.
He also called on both the private and public schools to key into sports as it would help to improve the health of the teachers and pupils.
Meanwhile, Gbemileke Moses, Head Teacher, Gadanasko Science Primary School, said the school had yet to benefit.
He said that those in charge of the distribution came to the school and he signed the necessary forms but up till now the equipment had yet to be supplied.
“Our school is among the schools shortlisted to benefit but we are still expecting our own equipment,’’ Moses said.
NAN reports that NLTF recently launched the distribution of the equipment for football, athletics and field events, swimming, volleyball and mats for martial arts among others. (NAN)
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(Edited by David Onilede/Peter Ejiofor)