Grassroots Sports Summit will help proffer solutions to Nigerian Sports- Nkechi Obi

As preparations intensifies for the forthcoming National Grassroots
Sports Development Summit 2026, a sports management consultant, Nkech Obi, believes that the summit will help proffer solutions to some of the problems confronting the country’s sports development just as she commended Senior Special Assistant to the President on Grassroots Sports Development, Hon. Adeyinka Anthony Adeboye, for the wonderful initiative.

Speaking ahead of the summit, Nkechi who over the years through her Premium Sports Management Services has been primarily involved in the design and management of sports projects targeted at engaging the private sector as a pre-eminent partner in sports development in Nigeria, said that the summit is long over due and expressed happiness that the event scheduled for November 18–19 at the State House Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, has received the endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

” I must commend the office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Grassroots sports development headed by Adeyinka Anthony Adeboye, for not only coming up with this wonderful initiative which is long overdue but getting the endorsement of Mr. President for the summit.

” I believe that with the calibre of resource persons who will deliver papers at the two day summit which includes; sports administrators, technocrats, stakeholders, captains of industries and the partnership with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), the country will get it right at the end of the day

She advocated for the implementations of all the recommendations to be submitted at the summit which she believes, will help in changing the narratives of Nigerian sports ecosystem, with a declaration that once the country gets it right at the grassroot level, , the sports sector will bring a big economic boost to the nation.