Lagos - Kumasi Games Postponed

The Lagos Kumasi Games an initiative of the State Government has been postponed again.

The Games was earlier fixed for Twentieth of September through 26th, 2010.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Sports,Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele, the Honourable Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development, who made this known, said it was at the instance of the Kumasi delegation through an e-mail sent to the Main Organising Committee of the Games.

The Commissioner, who assured that final preparations had been concluded by Lagos State, the host of the Games for the Year 2010,said the Kumasi officials communicated that they would get back to the Lagos State officials when they would be able to make the Games.

The Games would have featured seven sports comprising football, athletics, badminton, table tennis, tennis, taekwondo and basketball at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere and Rowe Park, Yaba, Lagos.

The Games is part of the grassroots development programme of the State Government meant to develop and empower the youth of Lagos State using the vehicle of sports in education. Participants are under the age of seventeen and were drawn from schools across Lagos State and Kumasi, Ghana.

The Main Organising Committee regrets any inconveniences to all and sundries especially the media who had been our progressive partners towards the Games. Meanwhile the closed camp of the Lagos Team will be disbanded to reconvene at a later date.