Adopt-a-talent sports project for launch January 20

THE official launching of adopt-a-talent sports programme comes up on January 20, 2012 following the approval by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola.Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa, Ikeja, will host the event, which is designed to scout for athletes of exceptional sporting skills below 18 years. The programme is meant to sponsor the schooling and training of the athletes and develop them into elite athletes.The programme will be powered by public private partnership and involves two phases, with the first including athletics, soccer/beach soccer, basketball, volleyball/beach volleyball, boxing and table tennis, while the second phase, which starts in January next year, includes swimming, gymnastics, judo and karate.Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to the Governor, Prince Wale Oladunjoye, under whose office the programme is developed and being implemented, in a notification letter written to stakeholders ahead of the launch, said the programme is packaged to discover young athletes from various sports and expose them to scientific training.'The programme is designed to discover and create a pool of budding talents - all below the age of 18 years - in the various disciplines, expose them to a scientifically structured all-year-round training programme and get the whole project powered by sponsors,' Oladunjoye said.
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