Ebonyi State Executive Council has approved N52 million to execute sporting activities in the state for the year 2018.
In a joint press conference after the Executive Council, Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Charles Akpuenika, made this known while briefing journalists on the activities of his ministry.
Akpuenika noted that three sports competitions had been earmarked to take place in the state before the end of the year, including the David Umahi Tertiary Institutions Games (DUMTIGA) 2018 for the ten tertiary institutions in the state.
He revealed that N500,000 had been disbursed to each of the participating institutions to enable them prepare and take part in the games.
The commissioner named other competitions to hold within the year to include the School Sports Competitions, which will hold in October and the Divine Mandate Football Competition for all the 171 wards in the state.
He emphasised that the state Government was intensifying efforts to birth a new Football Club for the state to gainfully utilise the talents that would be discovered through these series of sporting activities lined up in the state.
In the same vein, the commissioner for power, Emmanuel Uguru, also informed journalists of the Executive Council’s review of the Contract sum for the installation of Solar Power Plants at some strategic location across the State from the initial N160m to N207 million, which contracts have also been approved to be awarded at the meeting.
