Sports, tool for national development, tourism, says Iwuanyanwu

The Founder of Iwuanyanwu Nationale FC of Owerri and a renowned Nigerian person and entrepreneur, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has expressed his committedness to enactment the African Support African Tourism Awards (ASTA) successful advancing the Nigerian sports sector.

Iwuanyanwu, who doubled arsenic the President General of OhanaezeNdigbo Worldwide, was formally inducted arsenic the Grand Patron of Africa Sports and Tourism Awards (ASTA), marking a important milestone successful the industry. Iwuanyanwu said: “I’m 80 years old, but inactive beardown enough. I person a fewer much years to go. I’ll bash everything to enactment sports and tourism.

“I person ever shown involvement successful sports due to the fact that I similar sports truthful much. I adjacent person the Iwuanyanwu club; I established it to bid younger ones who person potential.

“KanuNwankwo was 1 of those tiny boys who utilized to prime the shot for us. He went done the Iwuanyanwu Club, then, we saw helium was precise good. We picked him the archetypal twelvemonth helium played for us.”

They played successful Saudi Arabia, that is Under 20, and helium did well. “The top happening that binds Nigeria unneurotic is football. Nigerians worship football, but not conscionable Nigeria, adjacent galore different countries.

“Sports is simply a instrumentality for nationalist development, tourism, economical development, and besides supports gathering quality and bringing amusement to people.” In acknowledgment of the achievements of ASTA laminitis Amb. Peace Onuiri, Iwuanyanwu commended the organisation’s efforts successful promoting sports, peculiarly football.

“I cognize ambassador, you and your squad are connected the close way successful sports, shot successful particular. People ticker football. Every idiosyncratic has a athletics they love.”
Also speaking, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ibrahim Musa Gusau, said: “When we are talking astir Sports and Tourism, it is thing that we truly request to beryllium superior astir due to the fact that it is thing that volition bring radical unneurotic successful antithetic capacities.

“A batch of radical don’t cognize what we person present successful Africa, unless we effort arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable to springiness them the accidental to travel adjacent to Africa and spot what we truly have.”

While commending the Ambassador, helium said, “Everybody knows what you person done for football, and I indispensable commend you for trying to spot however you tin marque this prime to marque Chief the beingness patron of this large organisation.

On his part, erstwhile Super Eagles striker, Daniel Amokachi, said: “If we are going to speech astir a fewer successful Nigeria that person made people, your sanction volition travel first.

“For a young kid who is increasing up successful Kaduna, successful the ages, Iwuanyanwu nationalist made america privation to play football? That’s the information of it.

“If we’ll speech astir football, past decidedly we’ll speech astir you. We’ll speech astir the improvement and maturation of humans. We’ll speech astir you successful Nigeria.

“The awards are a well-deserved honor, and I americium honored to beryllium sitting beside you,” Amokachi stated.