Schools Bid To Host 3rd Lagos Tertiary Games

Institutions are jostling to host the 3rd edition of Lagos Tertiary Games, which will be held from Thursday, 16 to Friday, 25 November.

Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, LOC, Prince ‘Wale Oladunjoye disclosed that the organisers of the championship has been receiving bids from institutions, which want their schools to be used as venues for the tournament.

According to the LOC boss, who is the Tournament Director of the annual Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship, “except for the finals, participating institutions will be used as venues for  matches during the 10 days competition. We will give the institutions participating in this competition the chance to be  venues as a way of bringing the tournament closer to the students. We have been receiving bids to this effect from interested schools. But the finals of football event and sprints will be held during the closing ceremony scheduled for Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on Friday, 25 November,” he said.

Prince Oladunjoye, who is also the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, disclosed that entries of athletes by sports/names are now to be submitted on or before 10 November for easy issuance of identity cards before the commencement of the tournament, which will feature 17 of 20-federal/state/private-institutions in Lagos.

He noted that the change in the dates for the Tertiary Games is due to the need to organise a befitting competition.

He said: “In our concerted effort to further improve on the performances of the participating institutions in ensuring that they are technically conditioned to get the best athletes to represent each school, as well as getting the logistics right, the 3rd Lagos Tertiary Games 2011, has now been shifted by a week. It will roll out from 16-25 November.”

The sporting events to be competed for include Athletics (100m, 200m, 400m, 4×100 and 4x400m), Basketball (men and women), Soccer (men), Table Tennis (singles-men and women), Volleyball (men and women) and Beach Volleyball (men and women).

—Bamidele Olowosegba