President, Nigeria Olympians Association, Olumide Oyedeji, says 15 Olympians would be celebrated on June 24 at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja, as part of the associations’ mission to cater for its members, The PUNCH reports. Oyedeji stated this during a press briefing at the National Olympics Committee building, National Stadium, Lagos on Thursday. “There are 96 national Olympics associations and NOA was founded in 1998 as a member of the World Olympic Association. In view of this, we have decided we are going to honour our legends and heroes, we are going to celebrate ourselves. “We have decided that on June 23 which is the Olympic Day, we have lined up some activities to celebrate our past heroes and on June 24 we are going to honour our past heroes and celebrate them.

Source: Punch June 03, 2021 23:25 UTC