Minister, Edo Move To Rescue Ailing Eagles Former Defender, Sunday Eboigbe

By Daily Sports on May 21, 2020

Sports Minister, Sunday Dare and Edo State have started moves to rescue the ailing former Super Eagles defender, Sunday Eboigbe, whose predicament was first highlighted by The Guardian last week.

Dare and Edo State’s Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu have raised a medical team to take over Eboigbe’s case with a view to getting him back to his feet.

Eboigbe, who won two African Nations Cup silver medals for Nigeria in 1984 and 1988, as well as the WAFU Cup while playing for New Nigerian Bank of Benin, has been bedridden by a strange ailment, which has made his limbs immobile.

According to the Minister’s Special Assistant on Media, John Joshua Akanji, Dare has sent a staff of the ministry to Benin to ascertain the needs of the former central defender and to also present some cash and other items to him.

Akanji said the minister also contacted Shaibu, who then raised a medical team to do a proper evaluation of the former star’s state of health.

Meanwhile, the sports minister has begun moves to revive long distance running in the country. To this effect, Dare has directed long-distance races’ coaches to come up with proposals for renovating the training camps in Pankshin, Plateau State and Mambila, Taraba State to acceptable standards.

Speaking during a virtual meeting with coaches, the private sector and other stakeholders, Dare also mandated the coaches to scout for talents, camp current runners and develop training programmes.

In the meeting with the minister were Professor Ezra Gunen, Tony Osheku, Stephen Nuhu and Timon Gunen, Nigeria’s 5,000m record holder, as well as directors of the Sports Ministry.

According to Akanji, these experts were in the meeting to provide insights into long distance races and how best to improve Nigeria’s ranking.

The minister tasked the stakeholders to audit the training camps in Mambila and Pankshin to ascertain the extent of renovation needed to bring it up to the desired standard.

“Once we see that plan, we can now slice that plan up into two or three stages, what is needed in the short run to activate it quickly to start developing these talents, with the Olympics in view.

“In that proposal, we need to also have your idea about the coaches, we need to have your idea about the training templates, as much as possible, so that proposal should determine and put forward what is needed. You are the expert in this area, and I am sure that you can give us a proposal that is tight but also allows us to do something in the short term and then go ahead to do the medium term and then the long term.

“The resources we have are not unlimited, they are limited. But the ministry will leverage on what it can get and as we prepare the 2021 budget, I will make sure that long distance gets a very close attention,” he promised. (Guardian NG)

•PHOTO: Sunday Dare 

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 21, 2020


 

You may also like...
LaLiga: Romano gives update on Real Madrid announcement...

AFCON qualifier: Libya in crisis ahead Nigeria clash...

Sarri Reaches Agreement with Juventus, Set to Dump...

Listen to me not your agent Mourinho tells...

Commonwealth Games coach missing ‘after toilet run’

Joe Joyce warns Oleksandr Usyk to forget past...

 

Latest News Nigerian U-16 Basketball Team Invited To Prepare For Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games Nigeria beat Cameroon to reach IHF final 27 schools for Doregos Basketball Championship Super Falcons to play France’s Les Bleues in friendly SWAN suspends ban on coverage of Anambra FA activities Joshua among boxing’s top three earners in 2024 Oshoala makes history with Bay FC Nnamani hails team over IHF bright start Flamingos lift U-17 W’Cup Fair Play Trophy Rangers Intl, SWAN partner on sports collaboration in SE LAGOS SWAN CELEBRATES AIG ZONE 2 ON HIS BIRTHDAY AND 30 DAYS IN OFFICE Traders Cup: Upholstery Soccer Team Secured 2nd Win To Advance To Round Two

 

Most Read Rangers International going, going . . . (55,142 views) Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (46,269 views) Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (44,351 views) Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (43,992 views) Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (43,932 views) Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (43,879 views) Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (43,718 views) NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (43,289 views) Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (42,333 views) Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (41,036 views) Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (39,490 views) John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (38,917 views)

 

Phone numbers

Tel: +234(0)8066020976
+234(0)8055068145
+234(0)7013416146
+234(0)8094272884

Email addresses

info@dailysportsng.com
support@dailysportsng.com
publisher@dailysportsng.com

Office address

No 3, Adetoun Close, Off College Road, Ogba, Ikeja Lagos.
Website: www.dailysportsng.com

Social Media