The ladies fee of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has won a touch of accolades for finishing its tenure on ‘an overly strategic observe’ with a feminine gender consciousness seminar for newshounds, Sports247 experiences.
The bathe of reward for the fee got here from the NOC’s president, Engineer Habu Gumel whilst talking all the way through the seminar in Abuja, the place he additionally instructed media practitioners to advertise enhanced participation of girls in more than a few sides of sports activities.
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Gumel stressed out that sports activities newshounds will have to advertise gender equality by means of giving larger visibility to feminine athletes, coaches, officers, directors and all ladies who’re fascinated with more than a few spaces of sports activities within the nation.
The NOC president added: “The media shapes narratives. What you write, what you assert, what you display, determines how the arena perceives ladies in recreation. If we would like extra ladies to play, extra ladies to train, extra ladies to steer, then we want the media to inform the ones tales.
“This seminar is, due to this fact, no longer on the subject of reporting sports activities. It’s about converting the lens. It’s about giving visibility to our feminine athletes, celebrating our feminine leaders, and inspiring a extra balanced and inclusive protection of sports activities in Nigeria.”
Gumel concluded by means of describing the seminar as a symbolic strategy to finish the present Girls Fee’s tenure, noting that its ultimate programme centered at the media’s toughen for women in sports activities, then praised the frame’s chief and individuals for his or her efforts.
“I’m proud to mention that this Fee has no longer disillusioned. Since 2023, yr after yr, they have got arranged very impactful Girls Management Programmes for feminine coaches, directors, managers and technical officers within the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
“They’ve constructed capability, they have got mentored, and they have got impressed. These days, we acquire for what is going to be the closing programme of this provide Fee, as their tenure involves an finish, and I’m in particular satisfied that they’ve selected to finish in this very strategic observe,” Gumel submitted.