Kabiru Yusuf suggests Golf as one way of promoting peaceful co-existence in Nigeria
The Management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of the Daily Trust Newspapers, and other titles have described golf as one of the ways of cementing and promoting peaceful co-existence in the country.
The media company has promised to sustain future sponsorship of golf tournaments in the country as a way of sustaining and promoting unity in the country.
Chairman, Board of directors of Media Trust, Malam Kabiru Yusuf, made this pledge while speaking with Journalists at the Prize Presentation ceremony of the Daily Trust golf tournament held at the weekend at the Ibom Icon hotel and golf resorts Akwa Ibom state.
Malam Yusuf who was represented by the General Manager, Business Strategy of Daily Trust, Ahmed Shekarau, said shortly after the prizes were presented to winners, said it was the desire of the management of the company to sustain the tournament because of it strong belief that Nigeria’s unity can be fostered through it.
“We know that golf is one of the veritable platforms for networking. It has become a source of unity for our citizens. You see the kind of people that converge in this place, coming down to play here, Nigerians can come together thus promoting unity among Nigerians.
“If we can come together and play golf why not extend that sense of unity to other platforms.
” We have ethnic, religious crisis. And Daily Trust has strongly established itself but largely known in the North, but we feel that it is high time we began to move South so that the sense of unity we have been able to foster through golf course, discharge that kind of responsibility”
The chairman who stated that there are challenges in organising such tourneys however expressed the hope that the partners would continue to support the newspaper to sustain golf tournaments in the country.
“It’s a yearly event, and we want to sustain it, of course, we know that organising a tournament like this is very challenging, but we have a strong feeling that our partners will continue to give us their support”
The Captain of Ibom Golf Club Usenobong Akpabio, in his welcome remarks, expressed appreciation to the Media Trust limited for organising the tournament and called on other Nigerian Newspapers to emulate the spirit of the Daily Trust Newspaper.
” I want to thank daily Trust for what they have done, and we wish that other publishing outfits that are even more established than Daily Trust, can do this. As far as I am concerned if you think Golf is not sports, you can also think that it is entertainment. It was very entertaining and very challenging” he said.
One of the players and former governor of Kogi state Alh. Idris Wadda said” I am honoured to be at Ibom Icon golf course this evening, I thank God and I thank Media Trust Limited for the opportunity to play golf here today. I thoroughly enjoyed the game. I didn’t play as well as I would have normally played but I enjoyed the company of Alh. Kabiru, and Peter from Port Harcourt. It was a unique experience for me”.
Prizes were presented to winners in various categories during the ceremony which was supported by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, CBN, Nigerian Navy, and others.
