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Isa Bio, the
Minister of Sports, has commended the General Overseer, Mountain of
Fire and Miracles Ministries, Daniel Olukoya, for his contribution
towards the development of sports in Nigeria.

Toyin Aluko, who
represented Bio, during the finals of the 2010 annual Daniel Olukoya
International Youth Football Competition, held at the Yaba College of
Education last weekend, said that she was going to ensure that Bio gets
first hand details of the church’s quest at developing the country’s
youths through sports. “What I’ve seen here is commendable,” said
Aluko, who’s the minister’s special assistant on technical matters.

“I must thank the
MFM General Overseer for empowering the youths through sports. I came
here to represent the minister of sports in an event that I thought was
just a football competition but I was pleasantly surprised to see young
boys and girls doing the 100 metres and the 4×100 metres relays. I saw
future athletes here today. This is the kind of support that we need in
the Ministry of Sports to help us develop sports in Nigeria and I am
glad that MFM is showing the way. As I said before, the minister sent
me here to represent him and I will certainly give him a feedback. One
thing I can assure MFM of is that the sports ministry will be ready to
assist them whenever the need arises as far as sports is concerned in
Nigeria. I must say that I am very pleased with what I’ve seen here
today.”

Winning team

The fourth edition
of the tournament was won by MFM Ikeja, who dethroned the defending
champions, MFM Headquarters, in a pulsating final which ended 2-1. MFM
Benin City won the third-place match by defeating MFM Kwara 3-0 on
penalties after regulation time had ended goalless. Olukoya, who played
the perfect host to top dignitaries that included Super Eagles coach,
Samson Siasia; former Super Eagles goalkeeper,

Peter Rufai; Commonwealth boxing champion, Olusegun Ajose; Athletics
Federation of Nigeria President, Solomon Ogba; and a host of others,
has concluded plans to send the winners and the runners up to Dubai, in
the United Arab Emirates, for a training tour before the end of the
year.