Achuenu Emerges NIPOGA President ~ Truth Reporters

 

The Nigeria Polytechnic Games Association, (NIPOGA), yesterday conferred the investiture of Rector of Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Professor Emmanuel Achuenu as President of the Association.

The investiture ceremony which held at the Events Centre of DSPG, was performed by NIPOGA Secretary General, Comrade Agboola Akinbode, to the admiration of the packed hall which had the association's representatives from various State and Federal Polytechnics across the nation, the top management staff, Deans and Heads of Departments, Directors, the Students Union Government and athletes that did the institution proud at the 2021 NlPOGA games at Owo, Ondo State, in attendance.

In his welcome address, NIPOGA Secretary General , Comrade Agboola Akinbode, noted the high commitment of the new President of the Association, who, until his elevation, was the Deputy President, towards NIPOGA's activities.




Comrade Agboola said he was very optimistic that due to the passion and high level of commitment demonstrated by the incoming President in the affairs of the association while he was Deputy President, he had no doubt that NIPOGA is primed to stamping it's authority in the sports arena among the comity of higher institutions in Nigeria.

The high point of the ceremony which was the formal investiture of the new NIPOGA President,

Responding, Professor Achuenu, announced that Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, would be hosting the 22nd edition of the NIPOGA Games, at a date to be communicated in the course of time to stakeholders.

The DSPG Rector who assured that the 22nd edition of the association's games would be second to none in the annals of the NIPOGA's history, reeled out the derivable benefits of his institution hosting the next games to include multiple business activities and creation of jobs around the institution's metropolis and environs, as well as new infrastructure that will spring up in the school in readiness for the games, among others.

The Rector also used the opportunity of his investiture ceremony to present Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals won by DSPG sports men and women during the last NIPOGA games at Owo, Ondo State along with cash rewards ranging from #50,000 (gold), #30,000 (silver), and #20,000 (bronze) as motivation.

In their separate remarks, some of the NIPOGA representatives from Polytechnics in Zaria and elsewhere, tasked the new NIPOGA President to take the message of the association to his fellow Rectors in order to ensure all round support for it's activities, while the Polytechnic's Academic and Senior Staff Association unions, ASUP and SSUP, pledged to give the Rector all the support needed to achieve set goals, describing his investiture as not only a thing of pride to the institution, but an action that has placed DSPG on the map of great Polytechnics in Nigeria and beyond.