By ADO SALISU

Plans are in top stuff towards the opening ceremony of the maiden edition of the Bayero University inter Departmental Sports Competitions scheduled to hold at the old site’s FIFA Standard Pitch of the university on Saturday 16th, November, 2024.

The university’s Director of sports, Professor Rabiu Muhammad alias Chanhu dropped these hints while shedding more light on the championships.

Prof. Rabiu Muhammad explained that the university authority under the leadership of Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas has done enough in this regard.

He added that the sports directory is doing everything possible to ensure colourful and hitch-free competitions.

The director revealed that the aim  and objective of organizing such competitions within the university is to enable the coaches to recruit hidden talented  and skillful athletes for future national and international engagements.

”Buk has potential athletes whom they need encouragement and support to excel at various sporting events within and outside the state,” he explained.

Prof Rabiu Muhammad who was the former captain of Raccah Rovers Football Club and later Kano Pillars in the early ’90 charged the participants to give the directory all maximum support and cooperation with a view to actualize the set target.

He assured that the directory will do its best to ensure free and fair officiating through the championships.

He said the university’s vice chancellor, Prof Sagir Adamu Abbas alongside his  management team  and other staff were  expected to attend the opening ceremony at the old site of the university.

By Sani Yusif

I was at the production unit of the Triumph Publishing Company, Kano but my keen interest in sports journalism made me to be sports writer and maintained a sports column called (Sports Eye) after my mentor Sani Muhammad Zaria transferred his service to New Nigeria newspapers in Kaduna. And when the government closed the Triumph in 2012, I was transfered to lectured DTP in the Department of Printing Technology of Kano State Polytechnic. And now that I retired, i used to visit the institution weekends for part-time lecturing.