The seventh edition of Kwara Sports Festival, earlier scheduled to hold between Jan. 5 and Jan. 12, has now been rescheduled to hold from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1.
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Abdulquadir Akanbi, Chairman of the competition’s Main Organising Committee (MOC), who is also the Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, disclosed on Saturday.
Akanbi disclosed in a statement in Ilorin that the athletes and officials were now expected to arrive for the competition on Jan. 25 while accreditation would take place on Jan. 26.
“The festival’s torch of unity, which was formerly slated to begin moving around the state on Monday, will now move round between Jan. 9 and Jan. 17,” he said.