Sports ministry sign MOU with Spanish govt to promote sports science, curb doping
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Spanish government towards developing sports in Nigeria.
The MoU was signed on behalf Nigeria by sports minister Sunday Dare. It was part of the activities of President Muhammadu Buhari’s state visit to Spain.
According to The Cable, the MoU is aimed at promoting sports science, technology, and medicine while also curbing doping.
According to presidency sources, the aims of the agreement for sports cooperation, which was signed by Sunday Dare, minister of youth and sports development, and Miquel Octavi Iceta Lloren, Spain’s minister of culture and sports, are to initiate and build collaboration in sports as well as strengthen the bilateral exchange between both countries on the basis of reciprocity according to their competencies and mutual benefits in sports.
Some of the specific areas of cooperation include the following among others; “building, development and management of sports relations and institutions, exchange of knowledge in sports science, technology, medicine, and the fight against doping.”
Others are “sports sponsorship, patronage, and organising of sports events, initiating programmes to support and promote sports for special athletes, protection of young athletes and sportswomen.”
Provision of sports facilities and training centres, organization of friendly and major International competitions among the national teams and clubs of both countries in different sports, and the arrangement of joint training sessions were also listed among the areas of cooperation.
