Gabel Youth Judo camp attracts over 100 pupils

Over 100 primary school pupils from Oyo State will participate in the maiden edition of Gabel Youth Judo Training Camp slated for Ibadan, Oyo – State, in a date yet to be fixed, the organisers have announced.

According to the camp initiator, Oteje Olugbenga Abel, the exercise, a Judo grassroots programme, is geared at re-introducing the basics of the sport to primary schools pupils.

Abel explained that the camp would be handled by Coach Dickson Egbewon, a former national coach, who took Team Nigeria to the Athens Olympic Games and Coach Ewa Ekuta, a member of the coaching crew to the All African Games in Algiers.

While thanking Nestle Nigeria and other corporate bodies for supporting the programme with their products, Abel believed the camp would help to build new crop of judokas for Nigeria.