Ogun to test run facilities for National Sports Festival in December 

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Gateway 2025 National Sports Festival will test run its facilities in December this year.
 
Ogun State won the bid to host the biannual sports fiesta at the end of the last edition held in Asaba, Delta State in 2022. It will be the second time Ogun is hosting the National Sports Festival, after hosting it in 2006 during the administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
 
Chairman of the LOC, Bukola Olopade, told The Guardian, yesterday, that Ogun State is working hard to deliver all the facilities needed for the Sports Festival.
 

“For us in Ogun State, Nigerian athletes deserve the best of facilities and that is what we are doing.”
 
Part of the plans to make the Gateway National Sports Festival different from past editions is the accommodation arrangement. According to Olopade, Ogun State government has entered an agreement with Babcock University to accommodate about 15,000 athletes in their hostel. 

“It is the first of its kind in the history of the National Sports Festival. To accommodate all the athletes in one particular hostel makes our job easy. It means all the athletes will eat in a more hygienic condition.

“The athletes will be transported from Babcock University to their competition venues. By the time we finish with the National Sports Festival in January 2025, I am sure all the athletes, officials and spectators will applaud the government and people of Ogun State for a job well done,” Olopade who is chief executive officer of Nilayo Sports management said.