7th May, 2013
Governor Of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), will officially unveil the adopted athletes of the State’s Adopt- A-Talent Sports Program on Thursday, 30 May.
The athletes, 40 out of 170, who are currently under the care of the Management Committee of the programme, will be presented to the public by Governor Fashola during an elaborate ceremony at Alausa, Ikeja.
Fourteen Nigerians, whose areas of occupation spread across every area of human endeavours, had earlier adopted 39 of these athletes, but as the news of the unveiling was broken, a very young bank executive shown interest in one athlete in Athletics. This made an additional one athlete to make the total number now to be 40.
The Management Committee of the program says all logistics to ensure a successful unveiling have been put in place even as more sponsors are coming to show interests in the young and promising athletes.
The Committee, however, would wish more sponsors to positively support either in team or individual sports athletes of the remaining 130 already penciled down for adoption.
The breakdown of recommended athletes for adoption per sport shows that Athletics has eight (8), Basketball 4, Boxing 3, Football 5, Gymnastics 3, Judo 3, Karate 2, Swimming 5, Table Tennis 5 and Volleyball 2.