Kwara State Team has won three gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the just concluded Under eighteen and Under twenty first Golden League Athletics Championship held in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
The team won the three gold in the under twenty categories with David Olowookere clinching gold in the four hundred metres hurdles boys, Joy Abu won the girls category while Mohammed Yusuf picked gold in the one hundred and ten hurdles.
In the under eighteen, Teslim Destiny clinched silver in the four hundred metres hurdles while Gbenga Emmanuel went home with bronze.
Eight States: Kwara, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Oyo, Ekiti and FCT participated in the invitational tournament.
Meanwhile, four Athletes and one Coach from Kwara State have been invited to the National camp ahead of the African Athletics Championship billed for Cote d voire from Monday next week to the twentieth of this month.
They are David Olowookere, Mohammed Yusuf, Teslim Destiny, Njoku Emmanuel and Coach Biodun Adeyemi.
Addressing the Athletes, the Kwara State Director of Sports, Mallam Tunde Kazeem commended them for their sacrifice and performance and the State Athletics Association for their support and encouragement.
Mallam Kazeem charged the Athletes to be good ambassadors of the State and the Nation, pledging that government would not relent in addressing their welfare.
The 2019 NNL format
The 2018/2019 season in the Nigeria National League (NNL) commenced yesterday Wednesday 10 April,2019 at designated centres in the biggest expanded abridged divisions since the creation of the second tier and ‘Most’ important League in 1979.
A total of forty-two (42) teams are taking part this season. The 2019 NNL season has been broken down into two (2) conferences of Northern and South with the forty-two (42) clubs in four (4) groups of two (2) sub divisions each.
The clubs are into A1, A2, A3, and A4 in the Northern Conference and in the Southern Conference: B1, B2, B3, and B4.
Some groups have five (5) teams while some have six (6) teams. This marks the least number of clubs in divisions in the history of NNL.
At the end of the group matches, each group winner qualifiers for play off, this will see:
Winner A1 vs A2
Winner A3 vs A4
In the Northern Conference.
In the South:
Winner B1 vs B2
Winner B3 vs B4.
Those who win the play off will qualify for the four NNL slots in the Nigeria Professional Football League(NPFL).
The four NPFL ticket winners will also play in a Super Four in Asaba, Delta State- the Stephen Keshi Stadium, to determine overall champion of NNL for the season.
Eight (8) NNL clubs will drop to the Nigeria Nationwide League(NLO), at the end of the season.
Eight (8) will be promoted from the NLO to the NNL, while another eight (8) will drop from the Nigeria Professional Football League(NPFL) to the NNL.
