Sports firm holds seminar on anti doping, hooliganism in matches

A leading sports consultancy firm, Success Tiyu International says it will hold a seminar to proffer solutions to the menace of hooliganism, drugs abuse and other vices that are prevalent at match venues in the country.

Director of the sports firm, Musa Abubakar, told journalists in Lokoja yesterday that the seminar which is to hold in Lokoja on March 4 would feature paper presentations by top sports technocrats on various subjects.

He said the decision to organize the seminar was geared towards tackling various challenges militating against development of team sports in Nigeria.

“It is crucial and necessary to do this seminar at this time to re-acquaint sports administrators and athletes to have at the tips of their fingers, ways of ensuring maximum security at match venues to checkmate crisis and forestalling sudden deaths on the pitch of play due to ignorance of athletes consuming harmful substances before games, amongst others,” he said.

He said a FIFA licensed sports manager, Shogo Shodunnke will deliver a paper on how to control match fixing, while a retired FIFA referee and Director at the National Institute for Sports, Dr Alex Mana will deliver lectures on development of grassroots sports in Nigeria.

He said a paper on how to discourage drug abuse and doping in team sports will be delivered at the seminar by the President of National Association of Women in Sports (NAWIS), Dr Olufunke Kajuini.

According to him, there will also be lectures on how to curb hooliganism and ensure maximum security at match venues by Elder Daniel Oloko of the Nigeria Referee Association (NRA).