Lets talk about the Annual National Sports Festival, it's our own Olympics right here in Nigeria, where states compete against each other. Kaduna is hosting the 2008 Edition, even though it is holding in 2009, as we speak, various sporting events are on going and athletes are getting medals for their efforts. Delta State is the defending champion, and they at it again as they are presently topping the medals table with about 11 gold medals, while Edo state is right behind them with 8 Gold medals . . . . . . .You can share any news or information  you have got about KADA 2009 right here, medals table updates with credible links are also very welcome.

It's so bad that there isn't an official website for it. That is the least they can do at least.

FBS:

It's so bad that there isn't an official website for it. That is the least they can do at least.

Sadly so! I wish the organizers knew the importance.

A total number of 10, 708 athletes were accredited for the ongoing 16th National Sports Festival tagged KADA 2009.
According to the Technical Sub-Committee of the festival, Kaduna presented the highest number with 711 athletes while Jigawa State had the lowest number with 69 athletes.

Statistics of entry of other states are Abia 494, Adamawa 190, Akwa Ibom 251, Anambra 216, Bauchi 351, Bayelsa 601, Benue 303, Borno 128, Cross Rivers 139, Delta 643, Ebonyi 144, Edo 667, Ekiti 72, Enugu 245, FCT 155, Gombe 129, Imo 367, Kano 239, Katsina 142, Kebbi 82, Kogi 98, Kwara 153, Lagos 700, Nasarawa 157, Niger 324, Ogun 644, Ondo 355, Osun 202, Oyo 324, Plateau 283, Rivers 528, Sokoto 108, Taraba 116, Yobe 213 and Zamfara 165.

The athletes are competing 32 events with a total of number of 773 entries.


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there is a website actually, but it gets updated late
http://www.kadagames2009.com/index.html


still waiting for the medal table

Dis Guy:

there is a website actually, but it gets updated late
http://www.kadagames2009.com/index.html
still waiting for the medal table

Thanks bro, i will go check out the site.

Delta State are runway winners of the 16th National Sports Festival after its athletes, increased its total gold medals haul here to 86 as against 59 scooped by its closest rival, Edo, by yesterday noon’s tally. With 86 gold, 56 silver and 61 bronze medals, Delta’s place as the number one powerbase of sports in the country is sealed and confirmed and with the festival ending on Wednesday, nothing can stop Delta from winning the Games three times on the bounce. Unlike in 2006 at the Gateway Games, where only four gold medals separated Delta from Edo, the lead is too much as Edo is even locked up in battle for second place with Ogun State, which has 56 gold, 54 silver and 71 bronze medals. Bayelsa is competing strongly here with 27 gold, 30 silver and 33 bronze medals to place fourth while Kaduna, comes sixth and Lagos lags behind in the 10th position, with 10 gold, 10 silver and 27 bronze medals.

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mucho thanks folks. at least there is a website.

One of Osun's contingents, an athlete, was reported dead a couple of days ago.

KADA ‘09: The good, the bad, the ugly

The 16th edition of the National Sports Festival might have come and gone but the memories of the biennial event still linger on.
KADA 2009, as the event was tagged, came with its highs and lows. For the first time in a long while, the festival had to take place three years after the last edition hosted by Ogun State.
The Kaduna State government had to postpone the festival last to year to get the facilities ready and many at the festival, which ended on February 25, admitted that it was worth the wait due to the standard facilities on the ground for the competition.
The festival started in Kaduna amidst colourful display of tradition, callisthenics and fireworks. It was indeed a night to remember for the government and people of Kaduna.
The colourful tartan tracks of the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna was the cynosure of all eyes throughout the festival. The tracks, which came in shiny blue colours with white lines to demarcate the lanes, were fixed by Mondo, one of the world‘s biggest sports services and equipment companies.
The firm also built all the track and field equipment for the festival and fixed all the seats at the Murtala Mohammed Centre, another venue for the festival.
The tracks, our correspondent learnt, had energy return, which means the athletes do not lose energy easily while running on them.
A total of 10, 708 athletes were accredited for the event with Kaduna presenting the highest number with 711 athletes while Jigawa State had the lowest number with 69 athletes.
Also at the KADA festival, a new rule stating that at least nine states must register for an event before it could be considered as a scoring event in any sport festival was enforced. Previously, 15 states had to register for an event for it to qualify to score in any festival.
Team Delta lived up to its pre-festival rating as it emerged winner of the NSF for a third consecutive time.
Delta amassed a total of 254 medals – 108 gold, 72 silver and 74 bronze medals to set the pace at the festival ahead of Edo State, who came second with a distant 77 gold, 46 silver and 54 bronze medals.
Team Ogun was third with 261 medals, making it the highest medal winning state at KADA 2009. Ogun won 76 gold, 76 silver and 109 bronze medals.
Bayelsa, Kaduna, Oyo, Lagos, Imo, Plateau and Rivers in that order completed the list of states in the top 10.
At the festival, Nemure Tebisa of Delta State emerged as the best athlete, winning a total of 12 gold medals, the highest ever by any individual in the history of the sports festival. He won nine gold medals in the individual swimming events and three in the team events to boost the medal haul of Delta State. He has been likened to Michael Phelps who won eight gold medals in a single Olympic at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 22-year-old is the first of the five children of the Tebisa family but however, he would be missing from Rivers 2010, having made his third festival appearance.
One of the major surprises of the competition was when Kaduna was walked over by Imo State in the opening men’s football match event. The host had arrived 10 minutes late in the venue and was subsequently disqualified to the relief of the Imo team.
Four festival records were broken at KADA 2009. Plateau State set the pace when Emmanuel Gwom set a new record with a time of 30.29.63seconds in the 10, 000m men‘s event.
The Williams family from Plateau State etched its name in the history books when Maureen Williams set the new festival record of 30.22m in the women’s pole vault event. Her jump also equalled the national record held by Victoria Itodo.
Maureen‘s father, Kaduna Williams, now a coach with the Plateau State Sports Council, had set the record in the men’s pole vault, which still remains unbroken, at the 8th NSF in Lagos in 1989. He jumped 4.25m in his last festival to end his career on a high.
The Williams family now holds the national and NSF records in the men and women’s pole vault events respectively.
The men’s 20km walk also had a new record while Ogun State on the closing day of the competition set a new festival record in the women’s 4x100m relay.
Team Ogun women‘s quartet clocked 44.83 seconds to enter the history books and erase the previous record of 45.84 seconds set by Delta State at the Gateway Games in 2006.
The young Gagbe sisters, Efiye and Dotimi, led Bayelsa’s medal challenge in the women’s swimming event.
In fact, the older Efiye Gagbe was the star of the festival for the South-South state, claiming five gold medals overall while Dotimi claimed one, both on their debut festival appearance.
Issues of athletes‘ eligibility for KADA 2009 also came to the fore with Delta‘s Amaka Ogbegunam, a former Edo athlete, taking prominence. But the controversy was laid to rest when the sprinter climbed the podium to collect her medals on the final day of the festival. Reports earlier had it that her three gold medals in the women’s 200m, 110m and 400m hurdles events were allegedly withdrawn by the Main Organising Committee of the festival.
KADA 2009 was also not without its ugly side with Osun State kickboxing athlete, Joseph Orjiakor, ending up as the greatest casualty of the games. Orjiakor slumped and died after losing in the final of the 68kg event to settle for a silver medal.
Before then three Delta women cyclists were knocked down while in action and barely managed to escape alive. A volunteer simply identified as Ladi, also reportedly died during the festival.
Kaduna fans almost spoilt the fun with continuous acts of hooliganism throughout the festival.
A para-soccer referee, Monsur Abdullahi, who was brutalized by fans while officiating, carried several plasters and stitches on his broken head throughout the rest of the festival. It was also the same story when the host state lost the men’s handball final to Niger State. Despite the presence of Sports Minister, Sani Ndanusa, and Kaduna, Deputy Governor, Ibrahim Yakowa, the home fans lost their cool and removed the rubber seats at the Murtala Mohammed Square, hurling same at the Niger players.
They went political when Kaduna played Lagos in the men’s basketball final. Despite dominating the game and eventually winning 108-89, the fans chanted PDP endlessly, to deride the Lagos players whose state is governed by the Action Congress.
But in all, most observers agreed that the festival was an improvement on past festivals and a hurdle for next host, Rivers, to surpass come 2010



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They went political when Kaduna played Lagos in the men’s basketball final. Despite dominating the game and eventually winning 108-89, the fans chanted PDP endlessly, to deride the Lagos players whose state is governed by the Action Congress.

This is funny.