Chevron identify with Karate Open Championship

The Nigeria Association of Shotokan Karate, NASK in keeping with its programme of activities for year 2006 and the development of the sport in Nigeria will this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) take to the floor at the Indoor of Rowe Park Sports Centre, Yaba, Lagos.

This March 11 and 12, 2006 National Open Karate Championship is being sponsored by Oil giant, Chevron Nigeria. The event will draw participants from the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The two-day event will attract participant will compete in 17 different categories from children to veterans (defined as black belt holder who beyond 35 years of age).

Preliminary bouts is billed for day-one of the two days and will be rounded off in the morning of Sunday while the finals and closing ceremony is scheduled to start at 3.00pm of Sunday.

According John Ogwo, secretary of NASK, the association had earlier in the year staged two major championships, the national children championship which took place at the American International School, Victoria-Island, Lagos and the Winner-Take-All championship where for the first time in the history of the sport in Nigeria participants were rewarded with cash prizes so as to serve as motivation for better performance in future championship.

The NASK is however, thanking Chevron for coming to the aid of the association in order to boost the level of competitiveness of members of the association and by adding value to individual Karatekas.

“As it is with many other sports in Nigeria today, the challenges for NASK have always been with lack of funds, funds to run all its programmes. Even though the aforementioned NASK National Open Championship is not the first of its kind by the association, it is however, the first event that we have ever had entirely sponsored by one company and for this reason we are grateful to the management of Chevron for believing in us, trusting in the potential of the sport in our nation and by their magnanimity helping in no small measure to positively affect Nigeria Karate and we want appeal to other corporate organization to emulate the gesture exhibited by Chevron in the over all interest of sports development in Nigeria”, Ogwo concluded

 

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