A Professor of Human Kinetics, Sports and Health Education and former Dean of Faculty of Education, University of Lagos(UNILAG) Akoka, Clement Fasan, has said there was a serious need for Nigeria to repositioning the university sports and that the time to do so is now.
He said repositioning would make the sporting activities including the Nigerian University Games Association(NUGA) Games in the nation’s academic institutions have a great national and global impact.
He gave this position on Wednesday in Lagos at the NUGA Scientific Conference held at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka.
The conference is part of the activities for the ongoing 26th edition of the NUGA Games at UNILAG. The event will end this Saturday.
Fasan, a keynote speaker at the event, talked on the topic “Repositioning institutional sports for excellent national and global impact.”
According to him, it is high time Nigeria and the organisers of NUGA games, in particular, had a rethink and chart a better and workable path to make institutional sports more rewarding not only for participants and their schools but also for the local community, the nation and the world at large.
He said it would be a good approach to consider NUGA for example not only as a mere competition but as an institution, a product, a brand, a business, a technological tool and a worthy partner to identify and develop sports talents.
He said this would be achieved only if sports could be part of the curriculum and NUGA could be self-financing, more diverse, inclusive, competitive and target-driven.
He said this was the practice in the developed countries and Nigeria had the potential to attain similar height if willing for better impact.
Prof Fasan, who is currently a faculty member of the Lagos State University( LASU) Ojo, however, commended UNILAG for going all out to mobilise support from both private and public sectors and also upgrade its sports facilities and amenities to meet international standards, adding that their sustainability and good legacy are also desirable.
He said certainly UNILAG had succeeded in changing the narrative about NUGA for good by setting higher standards for future hosts of the competition.
In their separate remarks, the vice-chancellor of UNILAG, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who is represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Development Services, Prof Ayodele Atsenua and the NUGA’s President, Prof Stephen Hamafyelto from the University of Maiduguri, said NUGA Games were truly a veritable source to produce great sportsmen and women among university students and also for the promotion of healthy competition, unity and national cohesion.
Ogundipe noted that UNILAG is hosting NUGA Games for the fourth time in the 56-year-history of the games, first in 1958, second and third in 1978 and 1998 and now the ongoing edition.
He said he is very convinced that participants and their schools and the country at large would see this year’s edition having a great impact.
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