Nigerians joined the world last week to celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Sports for Development and Peace, which #BeActive campaign is aimed at helping in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the event in Lagos, many stakeholders commended the proactive and smart approach of various sports associations and bodies across the world to tame the recent global health challenge, while calling on individuals, organisations and government to look inward, drive innovation, create enabling and supporting technological environment that will ginger effective development and endurable peace, believe to be the bond of love and unity of the entire human community.
Speaking during a stakeholders’ teleconference, Leslie Oghomienor, promoter of the elite Barca Academy Group Nigeria, said countries with high GDPs and viable economic indices were nations with high education, health and development index. He added that the national leadership has shown that, as a nation, Nigeria has the capacity to excel in all aspects of human endeavour. (Text and photo courtesy Guardian)
