BON Prexy Task Nigerian Sports Writers On News Diversification, Laments Neglect Of Grass Roots Sports

The President Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria(BON) Hajiya Sa’a Ibrahim have implored  sports writers in Nigeria  to diversify their pattern of news reporting by generating more local sports news  content.

Sa’a lamented that  the attitude of  wholesome  report of foreign sports stories by sports writers  has sentence   traditional sports to the news gallows.

According to her, failure to diversify the current trend of sports reporting, means that the future of  traditional sports activities in Nigeria is bleak.

Sa’a, who is the Director General(DG) Abubakar Rimi Television(ARTV)while receiving the newly inaugurated  exco members of SWAN Kano state chapter  said “when we say sports it should not stop at just football.

“most of our younger ones don’t know how blessed we are as a country in the area of our own local sports, take a look at hunting it is a sports that is ours, which can attract huge tourist investment, please dig into this areas and fashion out other new areas to promote our local sports.

“sports  writers need to work hard to promote our local sports for our youths to embrace such sports and excel in them and same will further unify our country.”

Sa’a reassured sports writers  of  support and guidance in the conduct of their professional duties.

In same vein  the  General Manager, Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Kano, Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, who also received  SWAN Kano exco in his  office on Thursday  appealed to sports writers to  invest energy in reporting grass roots sports events.

“sports writers should look inward, we have sports like Dambe, Langa and Shadi, that we need to showcase to our people, there are too many foreign sports stories all over the places, this is not to a certain extent too healthy for us as a sporting nation. Abdulrasheed stated.