Amos Ado Foundation Boss Donates Trophy For Sports Development In Ogbomoso

Grassroot Sports development in Nigeria should be encourage if we need to rightfully belong to world stage sporting activities.

This was made known to journalist in Ogbomoso when the chief executive and Chairman Amos Ado Foundation, Mr. Ado Amos was presenting a trophy to Osupa primary Day school in the ancient city of Ogbomoso and received by Iyalode of Ogbomoso, Chief Mrs. Rebecca Oluwakemi Ogundare and the school teachers.

Speaking at the presentation of the trophy,Amos emphasis that sports development is the only way to catch them young and remain the best in all the sporting activities in Nigeria and it must come from the grassroot stages.

"My mission is to encourage out youths to be involved in sporting activities and build a career in it, because we a lots of talents among our pupils and we need to discovered and train them and go for competitions,it is a major way to engage our youths in the society and this does not affect their academic career.

"I appeal to other private organisations to support these pupils in sporting activities because that is the only way to go by if we need results in our sporting activities. Their is a well laid planned and framework for sports in developed countries and that is why they are ahead of us".

"Basically, I am donating the trophy to the Osupa Primary Day School to kick start my plans in sports development because investment in this sector is another way of revenue generation, sports brings everyone together in unity" he said.

Amos Ado who was accompanied by Mr. Sunday was welcome by Iyalode of Ogbomoso, Chief Mrs. Rebecca Oluwakemi Ogundare, head teachers of the school and the pupils.

Iyalode of Ogbomoso, Chief Mrs. Rebecca Oluwakemi Ogundare expressed gratitude to Amos Ado Foundation team for bringing up the lofty idea, saying sports development in Ogbomoso is a long time dream of the council of chiefs of Oba Ghandi Olaoye, the Soun of Ogbomoso because is the only way to foster unity and develop skills and talents that will be valuable and be a good ambassador of city,state and the nation at large.

It will be recalled that Grassroots sports development received a boost with the introduction of the sporting competition among Nigerian university students organised by the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA).

So was the introduction of the National Sports Festival during the Yakubu Gowon administration shortly after the Nigerian Civil War.

The Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) also came into existence to add energy to the new enthusiasm in grassroots sports development that was sweeping across the land.

However, sports enthusiasts believe that those sports development is what Amos Ado Foundation is bringing up to develop talents and skills from grassroot.