As part of the activities heralding the commencement of the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF), the National Sports Commission (NSC), Monday in Abuja inaugurated four Sub-Committees, eight Project Management Teams and the MOC Secretariat to deliver a seamless festival.
The festival tagged “Paradise Games 2014” is scheduled to hold from 23rdNovember to 7th December 2014 in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River state.
Inaugurating the Sub-Committees and Project Management Teams, the Director General of the NSC who is also the chairman of the Main Organising Committee (MOC), Gbenga Elegbeleye enjoined members to be proactive and employ their wealth of experience, knowledge, skills and talents in sports organization to ensure that the festival which is Nigeria’s equivalent of the Olympics measures up to international standards.
Elegbeleye tasked the newly inaugurated members to strive to exceed the standard set at the “EKO” Games maintaining that the goal of the Commission is to sustain the tempo of the past standard of the Games as well as to continue to improve upon it.
The “Paradise Games” is an open festival for all eligible athletes.
The following are the lists of the Sub-Committees, Project Management Teams and the MOC Secretariat: Sub-Committee on Finance to be headed by a Deputy Director in the Commission, Sub-Committee on Technical headed by Dr. Bolaji Ojo-Oba, Medical Sub-Committee headed by Dr Abdul-kadir Mu’Azu and Sub-Committee on Media and Publicity to be chaired by Mr. Paul Bassey. The Project Management Teams are made up of the following, Games Village Managementey Okebugwu (Chairman), Transport – Peter Nelson (Project Manager), Venues and Facilities – Arc. Ahmadu Gambo (Project Manager), Ceremonial and Protocol- Mrs. Anne Attah (Project Manager), Accommodation -Mr. Issa Suleiman (Project Manager), Torch of Unity – Mr. Oluwole Akoja (Project Manager), Zonal Elimination- Dr. Ademola Are (Project Manager) and Marketing and Sponsorship Mrs. Maria Wophil (Project Manager) and lastly the MOC Secretariat.
