{"id":451589,"date":"2011-07-01T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/nigeria-sports-festival-food-wrecks-havoc\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:32:33","slug":"nigeria-sports-festival-food-wrecks-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/nigeria-sports-festival-food-wrecks-havoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Sports Festival &#8211; Food Wrecks Havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"20.542103361\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solomon Nwoke<\/p>\n<p>30 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>No fewer than 52 athletes were disqualified by the Main Organizing Committee of the on-going National Sports festival holding in Port-Harcourt Rivers State, in the combat sports from almost all the 36 states and Abuja on the ground of being over weight at the weigh ins.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of the MOC Alhaji Abba Yusuf Yola disclosed this development to newsmen at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it was as a result of this development that the feeding of athletes by the Rivers State government has been regulated so as to reduce over weight cases.<\/p>\n<p>Yola, who disputed an allegation made by some athletes that they have not been feed properly since arriving on Monday noted that it was all fabricated pointing out that it was not true that they were only feed once.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that once any state presented a certificate of insurance covering of its athletes together with the receipt of payment, it must automatically get free feeding for its athletes and their officials.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107010326.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Sports Festival - Food Wrecks Havoc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Sports Festival &#8211; Food Wrecks Havoc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Solomon Nwoke 30 June 2011 No fewer than 52 athletes were disqualified by the Main Organizing Committee of the on-going National Sports festival holding in Port-Harcourt Rivers State, in the combat sports from almost all the 36 states and Abuja on the ground of being over weight at the weigh ins. The secretary of the MOC Alhaji Abba Yusuf Yola disclosed this development to newsmen at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt Thursday. He said that it was as a result of this development that the feeding of athletes by the Rivers State government has been regulated so as to reduce over weight cases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Sports Festival - Food Wrecks Havoc - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/nigeria-sports-festival-food-wrecks-havoc\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Sports Festival - Food Wrecks Havoc - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Solomon Nwoke 30 June 2011 No fewer than 52 athletes were disqualified by the Main Organizing Committee of the on-going National Sports festival holding in Port-Harcourt Rivers State, in the combat sports from almost all the 36 states and Abuja on the ground of being over weight at the weigh ins. 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