NDDC weighs return in 2027 as curtains fall on NDSF

After six days of sporting contests, the curtain was drawn on the Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) with finals in football, athletics and wrestling.

For the close to 3000 athletes, who made it to Uyo with their respective states, it’s possibly an experience they will live with even if they drop out of sports as a career in the future.

This was succinctly captured by the Chairman of the NDSF Main Organising Committee (MOC), Alabo Boma Iyaye, when he addressed the media shortly after the rounding-up meeting of the organising body.

“This festival has provided an opportunity for bonding among youths of our region, memories that they will carry all their lives. We are happy at NDDC to have made this platform available,” Iyaye remarked.

As is won’t to be on the eve of big events, all categories of participants are heard in clusters sharing experiences, laughing and backslapping.

For a festival that took off with all the trappings of a carnival on the opening night, the closing is not expected to be less of a spectacle.

Dunamis Icon Limited, the festival project managers, expectedly retain the services of Smile Global Entertainment, producers of the opening ceremony for an encore

Abia State born all-white dresser Brown Chinedu Wilfred, was all over the Uyo Township Stadium venue of the event, coordinating his team as they mounted exotic lights and high quality speakers.

“We are setting up differently from what we did on opening day but this time, it’s going to blow minds,” Wilfred boasted.

The Lead Consultant, Itiako Ikpokpo, told journalists that the festival’s objectives have been met, adding, however, “We will surely put up a good show befitting all that was accomplished in attention to details we brought to organise this event.