Stakeholders champion healthy lifestyles, discipline, unity through sports
The 2025 edition of the Frequent Training Colleges Sports activities (BESS) Competition formally kicked off in Lagos on Tuesday, with stakeholders rallying enhance for wholesome lifestyles, teamwork, self-discipline, and youth vogue via sports.
Speaking on the flag-off ceremony held in Maryland, Lagos, the Executive Chairman of the Lagos Explain Universal Frequent Training Board (LASUBEB), Dr. Hakeem Babatunde Shittu, emphasised that the competition is bigger than factual a wearing tournament.
“It's miles a celebration of youthful energy, skill, and the limitless likely that resides internal every miniature one in our care,” Dr. Shittu mentioned. “Our colleges are no longer easiest centres of educational excellence but moreover the breeding floor for holistic miniature one vogue.”
Organised by LASUBEB and the Universal Frequent Training Price (UBEC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Colleges Sports activities Federation (NSSF), the week-prolonged BESS competition brings together over 370 pupils from six South-West states—Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, and Ondo—to compete in different sports at the side of observe and field, soccer, chess, scrabble. ayo-olopon, prolonged jump, and excessive jump.
Sports activities Calendar Highlights: Preliminaries (Football & Board Video games): June 17–18 at CMS Grammar School, Bariga
Music and Discipline Events: June 18 at Agege Stadium.
Huge Finale (Football Finals): June 19 at Yaba School of Technology Sports activities Advanced.
Shittu highlighted that security remains paramount, with tremendous sports officers and ample measures in space to provide definite the successfully-being of participants.
The Honourable Commissioner for Frequent and Secondary Training, Mr. Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun, who delivered the keynote address, praised the inter-suppose collaboration that gave rise to the competition.
“This tournament is a testomony to our dedication to nurturing young skills and promoting wholesome competition,” he eminent.
“Lagos proudly builds on the excessive accepted situation by Ekiti Explain all via the maiden edition in 2024.”
Alli-Balogun moreover counseled the persisted excellence of Lagos pupils in sports across local and world platforms, adding that BESS would inspire a recent generation of sports fans with the values of self-discipline, sportsmanship, and perseverance.
He concluded with a call to stakeholders and media partners to provide bigger the definite impacts of such developmental programs, making certain that no miniature one is left unhurried.
“Together, let us fetch a generation that's no longer easiest intellectually sound but moreover bodily match, morally factual, and socially guilty,” he mentioned.
