The Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, has reaffirmed the crucial role of the National Institute for Sports (NIS) in advancing the commission’s vision to reset, reform, and relaunch Nigerian sports.
  
Dikko disclosed this in Abuja while receiving the newly appointed Director-General of NIS, Philip Shuaibu, at the NSC Headquarters.
  
Shuaibu, who was at the NSC Headquarters to inform the NSC chairman of his resumption, held discussions with Dikko on how to deliver President Bola Tinubu’s mandate.
 
Dikko said: “I must thank most sincerely, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for once again taking the road less traveled with this appointment. Mr. President is embarking on a reform.
 
“There is a need to make decisions that will drive this vision. This (Shuaibu’s appointment) is one of the decisions that will truly support the ongoing reforms in the sports sector.”
  
Dikko described the NIS as key to NSC’s vision, saying that it will give the commission the manpower and research needed to accelerate the vision.
 
“We are doing things differently because only mad men will keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Therefore it is pleasing that Mr. President has chosen an administrator who has delivered in all his assignments, and now strategically positioned him to turn around the NIS to meet its intended mandate within the sports sector. Mr President has chosen three good friends to hold three critical positions to turn around sports in Nigeria”, he said.

Earlier, Shuaibu had pledged his commitment to helping the NSC chairman to actualize the Presidential mandate.
 
“I came to tell the NSC Chairman that I have resumed. I have had discussions with him and it is obvious that sport is headed in the right direction in this country. We will work to ensure that the renewed hope vision of the president will be visible in the sporting sector,” he enthused.