Northern Zone Colleges of Education Sports Festival underway in Navrongo

07-04-2010 Northern Zone Colleges of Education Sports Festival underway in Navrongo
Narration: This year’s Edition of the Northern Zone Colleges of Education Sports Festival is underway at the St. John Bosco’s Training College at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region. Seven training renowned colleges drawn from the three Northern Regions are taking part in the event which includes soccer, volley ball, Netball, table tennis, and athletics as well as other sporting disciplines. Isaac Asare and Abraham Dimmie were there for Radio Ghana and have filed this report.

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The sports arena of St John Bosco’s Training College is the venue for the event which is the 9th in the series. The sports festival which is held every two years is aimed at creating a platform for the colleges to familiarize themselves with one another through sporting activities. This is also to strengthen the bond of friendship and unity among students and the colleges as well. Participating colleges are the St. John Bosco’ s College of Education, Tumu College of Education, Tamale College of Education, Gbewaa College of Education and Bagabaga College of Education . The rest are E.P College of Education at Bimbila and N.J Ahmadiya College of Education at Wa in the Upper West Region. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, in his address, Mr. Woyongo charged the participating teams not to loose sight of the underlying key principles associated with the games, which according to him, is based on loyal participation and healthy rivalry. Mr Woyongo advised participating colleges to use the occasion to develop healthy values in terms of commitment, perseverance and discipline. This, he added, are necessary ingredients to achieving academic and sporting excellence. The Principal f St John Bosco’s College of Education, Alfred Abugre Ndago stressed the need for sports athletes to desist from engaging in all sort of negativities which could have serious implications on their health. Mr Ndago, however, charged them to always use dialogue in settling their differences, since the use of force and violence retards growth. In the men’s 1,500 metre race, George Atia of Bosco’s College managed to set a new record of 4 minutes, 25 seconds to win the race, whilst, Martha Banyeseri of Tumu College emerged as the winner in the women’s 1,500 metre race followed by Magdalene Kanyi of Jahan College and Apasinaba Margaret of Bosco’s respectively.

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