Attaining the National Sports Festival Objectives in Delta and Ondo States: Funding as a Panacea
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
The National Sports Festival which started in 1973, had three main objectives; to promote mass participation in amateur sports from the village level to the national level in all the states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to discovering talents; encourage the organization of amateur sports competitions throughout the country in order to raise the standard of performance of Nigerian athletes and; promote and strengthen friendship among the athletes throughout the federation with overall essence of enhancing national sports development and contributing immensely to the national economy. The descriptive survey research design is used for the study with a population of one thousand, one hundred and eighteen (1,118) comprised of coaches, teachers, athletes and organizing secretaries in Delta and Ondo States from which a sample size of two hundred and eighty-five (285) was obtained through the stratified random sampling technique. A forty five (45) item self structured questionnaire scaled on a modified four (4) point Likert type rating of Very High (VH 4) to Very Low (VL 1) which reliability index (r) of 0.75 was established with the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient with face and content validity ascertained by three experts in the Human Kinetics and Health Education Department of the Delta State University, Abraka was used to generate data tested using multiple regression statistics at 0.05 alpha level. The results revealed that there is a significant relationship between the funding of sports and the attainment of the National Sports Festival objectives. It was recommended that the governments of Delta and Ondo States should through proper funding, create avenues for participation in grassroots sports with a view to ensuring the identification and training of talented and budding athletes to represent the States, whilst the sports ministry and school administrators should expend the funds provided by government for procuring necessary sports materials needed for training and re-training of athletes to facilitate their participation in the National Sports Festival towards the attainment of the sports festival objectives.
Authors and Affiliations
Emmanuel Akarah, Josephine Ejobeh Ejobeh, Favour Okagbare Tayire
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