“We want to thank his Excellency for what he has done, especially on the revival of the state Sports Festival after its 15 years absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are also aware that work has commenced at a location inside the state stadium complex for some new Squash Courts, this is highly commendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We believe that Sport is capable of fighting social vices and youth restiveness if properly harnessed, through the provision of sporting facilities to engage them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are also aware of your support to the state Football club, Kwara United and your effort in the completion of the state Football House” Owolewa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The association challenged everyone saddled with the responsibility of Sports in the state to properly guide the Governor in ensuring sporting facilities witnessed a turnaround in the year 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body assured the Governor of its support all times to help spread in his effort geared toward restoring the state’s lost glories in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kwara chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), has urged Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to prioritise the rehabilitation of sporting facilities as stated in the budget presented on Tuesday. The state Secretary of the association, Olayinka Owolewa, recalled in a statement on Tuesday that the Governor mentioned as part of his plans for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[310,33,357,55,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}