Youths and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare, on Sunday said the ministry was planning to have a camping system to nurture athletes discovered at the ongoing 5th National Youth Games (NYG).
Dare told newsmen in Ilorin after addressing some of the discovered athletes that the ministry would go beyond handing the athletes over to the national sports federations for follow-up.
He assured that there would be a renaissance in grassroots sports development.
“We are going to have some kind of renaissance when it comes to grassroots development and that is at the local government and the state level.
“What we are planning to do at the ministry is to hand over the discovered athletes to the different federations. “The work of the federations is to develop these talents further and nurture them. “But, we will be going beyond sending them to the federations, as we want to involve a camping system where we will be able to monitor them and nurture them into sports professionals,” Dare said. (NAN)
