Participation of more women in sports is essential, says wife of competition sponsor

Mrs Kate Imasuagbon, wife of the sponsor of the annual Kenneth Imasuagbon Football Competition for secondary schools in the FCT, on Thursday called for more women participation in sports.

 

Imasuagbon told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that women’s participation in sports, especially football, would keep them fit and healthy to properly cater for their chores.

 

``A healthy mother makes healthy babies and healthy babies make healthy communities and healthy communities make a healthy nation,’’ she said.

 

Imasuagbon told NAN that she undertook a research on the level of male and female participation in sports and discovered that the ratio was too low against women.

 

``The result of the study showed that the girl-child has more tendencies to put on weight, by their biological build-up and weight attracts sicknesses and diseases.

 

``So, what that tells me is that I need to be healthy to build my home, community and the nation,’’ she said.

 

Imasuagbon said it was exciting that girls were becoming more active in football, as seen in the just-concluded Kenneth Imasuagbon Football Competition which had male and female participants.

 

She, therefore, urged more women to join in taking active part in sports, saying ``it is a way of becoming healthier and building a stronger nation’’.

 

NAN reports that the 2014 edition of the competition was held from Feb. 7 to Feb. 20, with both male and female teams drawn from secondary schools across the FCT