The Kaduna State Ministry of Sports Development says local governments have 48hrs grace to still submit their entry forms for other events for the Kaduna State Sports Festival.
The dateline extension was at the instance of some local governments to further allow them time to register.
Official communication to the officials of the local government councils signed by the Director of Sport Development, Yakubu Ibrahim drew the attention of the officials to the dateline extension of registration for participants, ahead of its 2022 State Sports Festival.
“You may kindly wish to recall our earlier letter informing you of the dateline for the submission of Registration forms which was on the 30th June 2022, and the subsequent beginning of the State Sports Festival Zonal Preliminaries which is scheduled to commence today Monday, July 4, 2022.
The letter further reads;
“However, you may wish to note that due to request from some LGCs for the extension of time for the registration, submission of the Registration forms for the Team events will still be closed today while submission of forms for other events continues up to Thursday, July 7, 2022, after which no submission of any form would be Received,” us he memos said.
It reminded us that participation in all local government councils is compulsory.
“Fixtures for the Zonal Preliminaries will be out by the end of the week.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner Ministry of Sports Development, Idris Samaila Nyam has directed the director of sports to ensure the same is communicated to the Ministry of local government.
The Frontline News scoops on the content of the commissioner’s directives, which reads, thus, “Has this been formally communicated to the Commissioner for LG, with copies directly to the Chairmen of the defaulting LGs?
“Pls ensure the proper letter is written and dispatched”, it added.
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