The Prof-FAN Network and Care Foundation, popularly known as Professor Farauta Ambassador Network, has started a football tournament in honour of the Adamawa Deputy Governor, Kaletapwa George Farauta.
The maiden tournament is currently being competed among seven local government areas of Mubi-North Mubi South Michika, Maiha Madagali Hong and Gombi LGAs.
Professor Sofemi Reuben Jebson, Special Adviser (SA) on education
who represented the deputy governor said the initiative to honour the deputy governor is a noble one.
Jenson said the youths stand to benefit from the games in the area of recreation as a unifying factor.
He said some of the challenges youths have, could be easily eliminated through sporting activities.
He also urged people of the state to source for a common platform to encourage sporting activities.
In his remarks, Mr Aaron Audu Gowono, Special Assistant on Sport Development to the deputy governor, stressed that the competition is a unifier which brings youths together under one platform.
Gowono pointed out that the deputy governor is a material to the youths, hence the tournament in her honour.
He said the youths remember deputy governor as a mother, when she served as the TV Vice Chancellor Adamawa state university Mubi.
At the time of this report Hong scored 1 Michika 0
