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Nigeria: Imoke Splashes N25 Million On Festival Athletes

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Calabar, 7 July 2012

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has compensated athletes from the state who won medals at the 17th edition of the National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt in 2011 as well as the 4th National School Sports Festival with N25 million.

The state contingent at the 4th edition of National School Sports Festival hosted by Cross River had finished tops with 117 Gold, 125 Silver and 110 Bronze medals and each gold attracted N300, 000, silver medal N200, 000 while bronze medal attracted N150, 000.

Speaking while presenting the cash reward to the medalists, Governor Imoke said that it was part of his administration to celebrate state champions who he described as champ-ions of tomorrow.

He urged the athletes to begin to prepare themselves to win laurels in the next Olympics after the 2012 edition in London, adding that through his government's comprehensive sports development programme, the state would produce Olympic champions.

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