The Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWASUBEB) has begun a talent hunt for athletes that will represent the state in the next National Youth Games (NYG).
No fewer than 11, 000 pupils and students of primary and Junior Secondary Schools across the 16 local government areas of the state were mobilised and participated in the week-long sporting activities.
Blueprint reports that the sporting events included track and field events for school children which ended in Ilorin, the state capital, on Thursday.
The championship was organised by KWSUBEB from the 2018 and 2019 UBEC/SUBEB sports intervention fund in collaboration with the Kwara State Sports Commission.
At the finals of the colourful events held at the main bowl of the Kwara state stadium, Ilorin, the governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, urged participants and their parents to embrace sporting activities.
Represented by the chairman, House of Assembly Committee on Education and Human Capital Development, Mohammed Baba- Boriya, the governor said sports apart from being a recommended activity for physical and mental fitness had also become “a means of living.”
In his remarks, the chairman KWASUBEB, Prof. Shehu Adaramaja, said, “70 % of youths that represented the state in the last national youths games in Asaba, Delta state, were our own students in SUBEB. What we are doing again is to discover another talent male and female, that will represent Kwara in the next National Youth Games (NYG).”
At the end of the events, Ilorin West topped the medal table with 25 gold, five silver and two bronze medals; Isin local government area came second with 11 gold, six silver and two bronze, while Offa local government area came third with 11 gold, three silvers and one bronze medals.
