Nasarawa State Announces New Reward Packages For Coaches
The Nasarawa State Commissioner of Youth and Sports Othman Bala has announced a new reward package for coaches who propelled their athletes to win medals at the recently concluded EDO 2020 National Sports Festival.
Team Nasarawa won 22 medals, comprising five Gold, four Silver, and thirteen Bronze medals, making it the highest medals haul in the history of Nigeria’s National Sports Festival for Nasarawa State.
The announcements were made during a post-mortem meeting held with coaches of the various Sporting Associations who participated at the Festival to assess Team Nasarawa’s performance, challenges faced, and sample opinions on how to improve on the results in future events.
The meeting was chaired by the Commissioner for the Ministry, Othman Bala, who showered encomiums on the feat attained by Team Nasarawa at the two-week-long event.
Coaches also voiced out the secret to their successes even as they revealed areas of urgent attention, especially in infrastructural development, procurement of modern, globally acceptable equipment, and early preparations, to better their performances in subsequent outings.
“Coaches who led their athletes to win a Gold medal are now promoted to the rank of Technical Advisers,” Commissioner Bala said.
“With an improved daily Duty Travel Allowance package for championships per coach risen to fifteen thousand nairas (N15,000.00), from the initial twelve thousand nairas (N12,000.00), and a guaranteed monthly stipend per coach at five thousand nairas (N5,000.00).”
“Silver medalist coaches shall be entitled to three thousand nairas (N3,000.00) as guaranteed monthly stipend, whereas Bronze medalist coaches will get two thousand nairas (N2,000.00) as guaranteed monthly stipend,” he added.
“These stipends, aside from your monthly emoluments, are gotten from the Ministry’s monthly Overhead Cost and it’s our internal way, as a Management, of motivating you before the Government comes up with its reward system.”
He called on the coaches to sustain the tempo on the successes recorded in Edo, assuring that more efforts would be put in place by the Government to attend to the various observations and suggestions made during the interface. He also said that the Government of Governor Abdullahi Sule was poised to making Nasarawa State the hub of sports development in Nigeria.
With the National Youth Games set for Ilorin, Kwara State in September, and the 21st edition of the National Sports Festival billed to hold in Asaba, Delta State in 2022, there is no better time for the Ministry to convey such post-mortem than now.
Amina Mohammed, Lafia.
