The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare , has disclosed that the ministry will soon produce a special brochure for all young athletes discovered under its Talent-Hunt-Programme so as to document their feat for posterity.
The Minister made the disclosure today in his office in Abuja while receiving Adeela Adedeji, Nigeria’s eight-year-old Silver Medalist at the just concluded African Gymnastics Championships in Pretoria, South Africa alongside her sibling and parents.
According to him, the brochure which will serve as a one stop shop for young Nigerian athletes discovered through this administration’s Talent-Hunt -Initiative, would also ensure that their names are written in gold as a mark of government’s recognition of their performance.
He assured that the young Gymnast who has automatically become a member of the administration’s Talent- Hunt-Programme would also enjoy the benefits given to other budding talents, like scholarships and sponsorship to competitions for enhanced development, among others.
Dare added: “You won silver but there’s gold in you, alongside your parents and coaches, we will work assiduously to bring out that gold.”