{"id":914,"date":"2024-02-02T20:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/?p=914"},"modified":"2024-02-02T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:25:57","slug":"football-jigawa-to-reintroduce-governors-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/2024\/02\/02\/football-jigawa-to-reintroduce-governors-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Jigawa to reintroduce Governor\u2019s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jigawa Government says it will reintroduce the Inter Local Government football tournament, also known as Governor\u2019s Cup in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commissioner for Information, Youths, Sports and Culture, Sagir Musa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Dutse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musa said the decision was taken after government had assessed sports and facilities across the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the gesture is aimed at discovering and utilising young talents in the sports sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHaving done this assessment on the state of sporting activities in the state, we\u2019ve come up with a strategy on how we can harness sport potential of our teeming youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat we agreed with the governor is to revive the governor\u2019s cup, which will have a component of inter local government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commissioner said that under the tournament, various football clubs across the 27 Local Government Areas of the state are expected to participate in the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, all chairmen of the 27 local government areas have been asked to bring list of five clubs each to compete for the trophy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Musa stated that the gesture is aimed at taking sports development to the grassroots, as well as assessing the potential of young and talented footballers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa Government says it will reintroduce the Inter Local Government football tournament, also known as Governor&rsquo;s Cup in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jigawastate.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}