The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), on Saturday at the Amuwo Odofin Olympafric Centre, staged an O’ Yes youth empowerment programme with no fewer than 600 youths in the Lagos area in attendance.
They comprised 500 boys and 100 girls aged between 10 to 15 years.
They engaged in various Educational sports comprising soccer, Volleyball, Egg Race, Sack Race, Dance competitions and Art.
The Educational Sports aim to instil in children respect, friendship, tolerance and excellence.
They primarily evolved the rules of the Games as there were no provisions for referees and technical officials, yet they achieved control of all the events by themselves.
Earlier, the Senegalese Programme Manager of the Olympafric Foundation, Ms Coumba Marieme, who was in Nigeria to monitor the progress recorded on the project, explained that she came to see how far Nigeria had progressed and offered technical support.
She held a pre-event Seminar with coaches and some team members.
”The workshop is a buildup of the O’ yes programme, which Nigeria’s Ibrahim Malik, the NOC project manager, has been running over the past few months.”
According to him, the O’ YES programme is the Youth empowerment programme we have been doing over the past eight months. In that programme, we have workshops on sustainability and inclusion.
Coumba notes, ”It is still the same OlympAfric programme geared toward the same goals.
“Olympafrica programmes is not only a Nigerian programme,“ she clarified, saying, We have been holding the O’ Yes event in all the 28 Olympafrica Centres in Africa this year”.
