Plans are in top gear to see Sunshine Queens make a swift return to the Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL Premiership at the forthcoming NWFL Championship playoffs.
The second tier league of Nigerian Women's league will coming up in July with yet to be announced venue where clubs will be jostle for tickets to gain promotion to the elite women league in Nigeria.
Ondo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Otunba Dele Ologunloluwa disclosed the plans for the Owena Queens on Wednesday in an exclusive interview monitored on popular WhatsApp platform called Family United by Football, FUBF.
He noted that the government was not happy with the club's relegation the previous season but has provided needed incentives and logistics to make a swift return back to elite division.
"Sunshine Queens are very ripe to play in the Championship, we are preparing them to make sure they triumph and get the ticket back to the Premier League where they belong. Its unfortunate they dropped to lower division last season but we won't allow that happen again," he said.
On the plan to discover more talents in other sports, the vibrant Sports Commissioner disclosed that the Ondo State Sports Festival will be coming anytime soon with the bill to have Ondo State Sports Trust Fund established almost sail through at the Legislative house.
"One of the proposals I made to the State cabinet is to our own State Sports Festival and it was approved and will be coming up any moment from now.
"I believe doing that will help us to fish out more talents that are abound in the state especially in the grassroots.
"We are also harnessing talents from schools through their inter house sports, we sent our coaches there to identify them, monitor them and later bring them together for proper training," he said.
Otunba Dele Ologunloluwa however reassured that the State would raise a strong Team Ondo that will be among the top five States in the next National Sports Festival just as he commended the sports stakeholders in the state for their supports on the successes achieved so far.
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