Red House wins Army Children Senior High School Inter-House Sports

[FILE] Red house at the weekend topped the medals table at the Army Children Junior High School inter-house competition held at the General Tukur Buratai Sports Field of the Army Cantonment, Ikeja.

Red House won the 2022 Army Children Senior High School inter-house sports competition in Lagos. The event took place at the General Tukur Buratai Sports Field Army Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos.

At the end of the ceremony, Red House topped the medals table with seven gold, two silver and six bronze to push Blue House to the second position with six gold, seven silver and three bronze medals.

Yellow House finished third with five gold, five silver and seven bronze medals, just as Green House placed fourth with four gold, six silver and seven bronze medals, while Purple House finished in the fifth position with two gold, five silver and two bronze medals.

Dignitaries from all walks of life, including parents, who turned out en masse to support their children, attended the colourful inter-house sports competition. It was not just the students that participated in the activity as parents, teachers, invited schools and old students took part in various activities.

Speaking at the occasion, the school’s principal, Prince Ade Adepetun commended the teachers for their efforts, just as he thanked the parents and those who sponsored the event.

He urged Nigeria sports administrators to go back to the grassroots to discover more talents for the country, adding, “through the inter-house sports competition, we can discover more athletes for the country.

Adepetun said that the holding of the annual sports meet is in partial fulfilment of the mandate given to schools by the government to raise, nurse and nurture children who will become balanced