Rugby Players are celebrating the return of their beloved game to the Edo State Sports Festival which will be held from the 22nd to the 30th of April in Benin City.
A total of 29 Sports met the final selection by the organizing committee of the 4th edition of the Edo State Sports Festival. They are athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, chess, cycling, gymnastics, and para athletics. The others are taekwondo, tennis, abula, ayo, volleyball, beach volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, deaf athletics, karate, scrabble, swimming, dart, kung-fu, kickboxing, table tennis, judo, football and rugby.
The rugby community says it is a huge welcome development for the growth of the sport in the country as it will further encourage the sports in the state and in extension in the country.
Before now, rugby was excluded based on the fact that it was not at the biennial National Sports Festival coming up in May in Ogun State. This position was later changed to encourage the beautiful game of Rugby with Edo State leading in Nigeria and with the only dedicated rugby pitch in the country.
The inclusion of rugby at the 4th edition of the Edo State Sports Festival comes as a great relief to the players as they will be looking forward to something within the state even though they are still praying for a miracle for a last minute return at the National Sports Festival. They are also looking at the forthcoming 1st Niger Delta Sports Festival coming up from 1st – 9th April 2025 in Akwa Ibom State.
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