{"id":3867,"date":"2019-12-02T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:49:08","slug":"ahead-tokyo-2020-olympics-sports-minister-inaugurates-ministerial-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=3867","title":{"rendered":"Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Zainab Tanimu<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Kaduna, North-West,Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Minister\u00a0for Youth and Sports Development, Hon. Sunday Dare has inaugurated\u00a0 the Ministerial Committee for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>This according to the\u00a0 press statement signed by\u00a0information Officer 1\u00a0Ulor Chioma on\u00a0behalf of the Director Press,\u00a0dated\u00a029th November, 2019,\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u00a0said the action was in furtherance of the minister&#8217;s avowed commitment to a purposeful and outstanding podium\u00a0 performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Minister asserted that the formation of the Committee was a promise fulfilled from the fallout of his earlier engagement with the Presidents \/ Secretaries of Federations, President of NOC and\u00a0 Coaches ; to chart a way forward for a glorious performance at the intercontinental Games.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>In the course of the inauguration of the Ministerial Committee at the MKO Abiola Stadium Office recently,\u00a0 Hon Sunday Dare stated that the Committee&#8217;s mandate is planning and coordinating Nigeria&#8217;s preparation, participation and eventual podium performance at the Games, adding that it would also collaborate with the Technical Committee to implement its mandate.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He revealed that to accelerate the decisions of the discussion held at the last meeting with all the\u00a0 Secretaries\u00a0 and Paralympic Federations, the Ministry through the Federations and Elites Athletes Department FEAD have sent out call order to submit their training plan and also overtime monitor the performance of the athletes to give the Ministry the data plan needed to have the scientific overview and analysis to know how many sports and athletes will be going to the Olympics.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Mr. Dare also informed the media of the Ministry&#8217;s plan to organise a Media training for the journalist to give them adequate training in covering sports through data and statistics.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Ministerial Committee is headed by the Permanent Secretary Mr. Adesola Olusade, other members are Engr. Habu Gumel, Brig.Gen.Emico Eruwa, Mrs Hauwa\u00a0 kulu Akinyemi, Dr. Ademola Are and Dr. Paul Onyeudo. Others are Dr. Mrs. Toyin Madein, Mr. Samuel Onuh, Amb. Mary Onyali, Arch Abiodun Owoborode, Mrs Tayo Oreweme and Mr. Emma Nweri.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Responding on behalf of the Committee,\u00a0 the Chairman,\u00a0 Mr. Olusade Adesola commended the Minister, describing the inauguration as an affirmation of his commitment to the Game.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He promised the Committee will put in their best to implement the Committees mandate for a\u00a0 successful preparation of Team Nigeria and\u00a0 \u00a0ensuring\u00a0 the\u00a0 Nation derived\u00a0 maximum benefits from the athletes.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0 Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, North-West,Nigeria The Minister\u00a0for Youth and Sports Development, Hon. Sunday Dare has inaugurated\u00a0 the Ministerial Committee for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.\u00a0\u00a0 This according to the\u00a0 press statement signed by\u00a0information Officer 1\u00a0Ulor Chioma on\u00a0behalf of the Director Press,\u00a0dated\u00a029th November, 2019,\u00a0 \u00a0said the action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=3867\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Sports Minister inaugurates\u00a0 Ministerial Committee\u00a0 Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, North-West,Nigeria The Minister\u00a0for Youth and Sports Development, Hon. 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