By Daily sports on April 15, 2021
Winner of the 2020 National sports Festival, Delta State will play host to the next edition of the Festival in 2022.
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare, announced this while declaring closed the 20th edition of the Festival tagged Edo 2020 which ended in Benin on Wednesday.
“Congratulations to Delta State for emerging the overall winner of the Games of the 2020 National sports Festival. I’m glad to note that the Federal Government received bids to host the 21st edition of the National sports Festival in 2022 from 6 states namely: Delta, Ebonyi, Imo, Kaduna, Kano and Ogun.
“Following the evaluation of the bids and the physical visitation to the prospective states, I hereby announce Delta State as the next host of the National sports Festival in 2022.
“I congratulate the Government and people of Delta State for emerging the preferred State and wish them best of luck in the organisation of the 21st National sports Festival,” Dare said.
•PHOTO: Sports Minister Sunday Dare
Source Daily sports
Posted April 15, 2021
You may also like...
Roma Close In on Manchester United’s Smalling
Too much food may destroy Nigerian athletes in...
Guardiola blames ref after Man City’s Champions League...
Mahrez Linked With PSG Switch
Tiger Woods struggles in Dubai
Ola Aina Interested in Torino Stay
In-form Onuachu makes strong AFCON 2025 case
Cantonment Braves win Renewed Hope basketball tourney
D’Tigers walk tightrope in World Cup qualifiers
‘Joshua, Paul fighting for money’
Medals rain as Special Eagles book final slot
NSC moves to approve Nigeria’s first flag football federation
USHERING IN DECEMBER & CHRISTMAS
Awoniyi’s Kwara Kiddies League season IV ends Dec 14
Enyimba end three-game winless run against Rangers
Nigerian coach sells Osimhen’s boots
Aquatics federation hails NSC’s festival pool project
Chelsea's 'best player' Palmer fit to face Arsenal
Most Read
Rangers International going, going . . . (63,378 views)
Amaju Pinnick: A cat with nine lives (54,614 views)
Second Term: Amaju Pinnick, Other NFF Heavyweights Home to Roost •How Pinnick Broke the Jinx (52,556 views)
Current issues in Nigerian sports: Matters arising (52,193 views)
Sports Development: Zenith Bank on the zenith (52,165 views)
Missing $150,000 IAAF Grant: Solomon Dalung’s Hide and Seek game (52,082 views)
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s solid footprints, commitment to sports development in Kano State (51,925 views)
NFF Presidency: Pinnick, Maigari, Ogunjobi, Okoye in Battle for Supremacy (51,514 views)
Olopade, BET9A wave of revolution in NNL (50,641 views)
Commonwealth Games 2018: Shame of Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung (49,204 views)
Ibrahimovic’s Man U exit: Whose decision is it? And in whose interest? (47,596 views)
John Mikel Obi: Segun Odegbami’s Outrageous Call! (47,070 views)