Assurance of hosting the best and most successful Nigerian University Games,NUGA, has been given by the host University.
This assurance was made by the Vice Chancellor, University of jos, Professor Tanko Ishaya,FBCS,FNCS, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the university, venue of the athletes accreditation for the Games.
Prof Tanko, while welcoming the accreditation team also assured them of excellent reception all through their stay at the university.
Prof Tanko, who is the 10th substantive Vice Chancellor of Unijos said ” Unijos will host the best and successful games, the type Nigeria has never seen based of facilities, reception and competition. We are already counting the best already with testimonies of the accreditation and technical teams on ground; this is just the tip of the iceberg”.
“Our facilities will be second to known and be used to revive the old days of jos producing great athletes and sport men like Mikel Obi, Ahmed Musa, Kenneth Omerou and others”.
Prof Tanko explained that NUGA has caught National attention from the President, Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Education, “this has led to the setting up of a committee to work on the establishment of Sports Centres in Nigerian Universities, thus, ten schools have been selected and Unijos is one of them, they will be centres of excellence in sports that will serve as pools for West African University Games, World University Games and our National teams”.
He said the country is already moving towards having Faculties of Sports that will teach courses on Sports Management, Journalism, Sports Medicine and a whole lots as Sports industry is huge.
The Vice Chancellor appreciated the Chairman, Technical,NUGA, Professor Yakasai Musa Garba, who also represented the NUGA National President, for his commitment to see to the success of the accreditation exercise.He also assured them that all Games will be held on campus but where some might not hold on campus, facilities provided will be top notch.
He especially had great words of appreciation to the Chairman,NUGA 2025 Accreditation Team and Director of Sports, Benson Idahosa University, Mrs Eunice Adebayo James, for resoluteness in seeing that the right things are done.
The Games is scheduled to start on the 5th November, 2025.
Credit: Nathaniel Mobolade,Jos.
