Karunwi schools table tennis tournament serves off today

THE Mobolaji Johnson Sports Centre, Rowe Park, Yaba will today come alive as 24 secondary schools begin hostilities at the maiden Adeyemi Karunwi Trust table tennis championship.The participating schools are drawn from the six education districts of Lagos, with each presenting four teams. The one week competition is being organised in partnership with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development as well as the Education Ministry.The teams will jostle for honours in seven events while awards to be won by the participants include Most Well Behaved School, Most Valuable Player for boys and girls' events, and cash rewards and trophies.The events are team, singles, doubles and mixed doubles.According to a board member of the Adeyemi Karunwi Trust, Adebamike Oloko, the tourney is meant to foster development and empowerment of youths through promotion of such competition in schools across Lagos State. Prior to the staging of the championship, she said the body, in the last two years, has assisted 34 schools in organising sporting events.Oloko noted: 'It is with great pleasure that Adeyemi Karunwi Trust humbly acknowledges the recognition by this current administration and the efforts of the Trust, which has been on the ground since 1980 to support one of the extra curricular activities in public schools located within Nigeria, particularly Lagos State.'In his remarks, the Lagos State Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, Wahid Oshodi, lauded the body for supporting sports, describing such gesture as in line with the ideals of the present administration.
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