{"id":38183,"date":"2024-06-20T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/otus-administration-to-hunt-for-sports-talents\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:04:39","slug":"otus-administration-to-hunt-for-sports-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/otus-administration-to-hunt-for-sports-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"Otu\u2019s administration to hunt for sports talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Bassey Otu has said his administration is very interested in hunting for sports talents in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said in line with trending global sports business, his administration is partnering with some sports partners to bolster sporting activities as a way of empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke when he received investors who will renovate the sports housing facility for athletes and other budding sporting stars inside the UJ Esuene Stadium Stadium Calabar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am particularly interested in talent hunting. We want to collaborate with relevant agencies to scout for talents, home them, and launch them into the world of sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCross River state is abundantly blessed with talents capable of taking the sports world by storm,\u201d the Governor added.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor pointed out that sports, all over the world, have developed from being a mere leisure activity to a money-spinning venture, hinting that the state is following in this same direction.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the sports ministry and investment partners to speed up paperwork for the renovation of the housing facility and to deliver quality service.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the investment partner and Chief Executive Officer of SRHD Sports Management, Mr Daniel Daramola pointed out that the partnership between the two parties would go a long way to impact the state through sports.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the 50-room housing facility, when completed, would contribute to the state\u2019s economy through revenue generation and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Otu\u2019s administration to hunt for sports talents<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Bassey Otu has said his administration is very interested in hunting for sports talents in the state. He said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5307],"tags":[11272,190,18640,180,5308,18641,1753,17131],"class_list":["post-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-otu","tag-administration","tag-for","tag-hunt","tag-news","tag-otu","tag-otus","tag-sports","tag-talents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}