…visits CDS, IGP to integrate sport
The Nigeria Rugby Football Federation led by its President, Mr Kelechukwu Mbagwu, has paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Defence Staff and the Inspector General of Police in their respective offices in Abuja last week in a bid to fully integrate Rugby into the Nigerian Armed Forces.
A presentation by the new General Manager of Nigeria Rugby, Mr James Goode was made about the game and the NRFF plans for the expansion of Rugby throughout Nigeria.
The Feedback from the Military officers was highly positive and they immediately saw the relevance of the sport to their own training requirements.
“The qualities that make a good soldier also make a good rugby player,” one of the military interlocutors remarked.
This month, there will be a combined forces sports training week where the NRFF will train 10 coaches from each of the services.
Already the Police and the Army have started with teams playing in the domestic leagues in Lagos and the north. There will soon be in-house seminars, clinics and courses for its personnel, with special emphasis in introducing the game to the Police, Army and Air Force schools across the country.
With this approval from the Defence HQ and Louis Edet House, Rugby will soon feature in the Armed Forces Games. It is already a medal winning event at the Police Games.
