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From Aniekan Aniekan, Calabar
Hon. Bukola Olopade, the Director General of the National Sports Commission, has disclosed that over 5,000 small businesses have been impacted through President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
He disclosed this in Calabar on the sidelines of the 2nd National Council on Sports meeting, themed “The Business of Sports: Creating Jobs, Wealth and Utility under the Renewed Hope Agenda”.
According to him, “President Tinubu, in his mandate to us, said create a sports economy that can work for all.
“We want to see a system where indigent people become millionaires through their sports business.
“In hosting the National Sports Festival in Abeokuta, over 300 small-scale businesses took part. Hundreds of people came to sell at the African Athletics meet.
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“When you put that relatively, this year alone more than 5,000 small businesses have been impacted this year alone.”
He added that there are a number of policy changes and radical decisions that have been taken in terms of grassroots development, funding and how money should come into sports.
Hon. Olopade said within the next four to five years, they hope to see a system where the sports economy is beginning to resonate with athletes, entrepreneurs and also a value exchange system between sports stakeholders and potential sponsors.
Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, who was represented by Agnes Atsu, the Sports Development Commissioner, said his administration fully aligns with the President’s agenda on sports and will leverage it.
