Giwa vows to turn NSC around

Newly elected Commodore of the Navy Sailing Club (NSC), Citizen Giwa Daramola has pledged to take the club to new heights and turn it into a centre of aquatic excel­lence during his term of office.
Giwa, who emerged at the club’s Annual Gen­eral Meeting held at the Rock View hotel in Fes­tact Town recently told Shalloma's that his victory is for all, stressing that it is the wish of the newly elected executives to thrive on introducing programmes that would see the club being more competitive in nature.
“Our target is to see the Navy Sailing Club, NSC become a ce
ntre of aquatic excellence. It’s also our desire to promote com­petition among our youth athletes and introduce more water sports to our usual, rowing, canoeing, kayaking and sailing. We intend to do our best in training local and interna­tional athletes for Nigeria in collaboration with the Nigeria Rowing, Canoe­ing and Yachting Federa­tion headed by our patron Rear Admiral Festus Por­beni.”
He noted that with Ni­geria’s excellent perfor­mance at the last African Youth Games held in Madagascar earlier this year, the Navy Sailing Club has no choice than to improve on the training of the athletes by providing the enabling environment for the federation and the athletes.
On programmes for the last quarter of the year, the Commodore who tri­umphed over his cousin, Captain Femi Kayode Da­ramola by 32 to 27 votes said the executive at its in­augural meeting approved a number of events, which includes the Commodore’s race billed to commence from the Ibeche beach to the Navy Sailing Club, covering a distance of eight nautical miles. “The Commodore’s race holds at the end of September and will be followed by the Frank Olo invitational that will see participants from the Lagos Yacht Club, Lagos Boat Club and some elite athletes from all over Nigeria, as well as the annual Young Shall Grow race.”
He, however, pleaded for corporate sponsors to join the NSC in ensuring that the game of water sports grows and develops in Nigeria. He pointed out that Nigeria stands to win lots of medals from wa­ter sports than any other sports especially with the next Olympics coming up in Rio 2016.