Provost assures good outing in NICEGA
THE Deputy Provost of Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kumbotso, Dr. Shehu Garba has said that his institution has concluded strategies to excel not only in the preliminaries Zone E of the Nigerian Colleges of Education Games (NICEGA) but to make impact in the competition proper at the Federal College of Education (Technical) (FCT), Obudu, Cross River state later in the year.
Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday during the openning ceremony of the preliminaries currently taking place in Kano, Dr. Garba explained that with the performance of the institution’s athletes so far, the school will excel in the competition.
‘’It may be recalled that the last time a NICEGA event was held was in 1999 (LAUTAI ’90). At that time, this college was a Campus of the then bi-campus Kano State College of Education. We still recall with some pride our role during the LAUTAI 90.’’
‘’It is with the same degree of pride and with higher desire to raise sports in our college to greater heights that we have accepted to host the current edition of NICEGA preliminaries,’’he explained.
Dr. Garba then said that ‘’the spirit of NICEGA is the spirit of unity through sports. We must all strive to compete to that ideal. We must not compete at the expense of our unity as brothers and sisters from Nigeria’s colleges of education system and remind the athletes that in the events to be competed for there will be winners and losers, the games is not a do or die affair.’’
The provost however, commended the state government for its unflinching support and pledged that the institution would do everything possible to ensure the comfort of the visiting athletes throughout the competition.
He charged the athletes and officials to exhibit sportsmanship throughout the championship and avoid anything capable of disrupting the smooth conduct of the competition.