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Nigeria born
American Football star, Amobi Okoye is taking time off in Nigeria on
the platform of his foundation -Amobi Okoye Foundation, to help kids
keep active through sport, and also get good education in the process.

Speaking in a press
conference at the Teslim Balogun Stadium yesterday, the Foundation
which is on its 3rd annual mission trip to Africa, announced its
intention to introduce a prep school for American football in Nigeria.
The vision, Okoye said, is for youth development around a central theme
“Sport for Life.”

After the press
conference, the American football star, who plays for Houston Texas,
took to the newly refurbished training pitch of the National Stadium to
teach eager kids the rudiments of the game. One of the kids, a Senior
Secondary School 1 student of Ijegun Secondary School, Mayowa Adepoju,
was thrilled with introduction of the game and said he will play
American football alongside football (soccer) which he is already used
to, “am just playing the game today, but I love it, more running more
exercise. I feel free and happy,” the 15 year old said.

Earlier, football
analyst and former member of the technical committee of the Nigeria
Football Federation, Dudu Orumen was made the pioneer head of the Lagos
State American Football Association by Adeniji Adele, the state
commissioner for sports.

Commenting on the
challenge of making the game appealing to Nigerians, Orumen said it is
an opportunity for young people and young adult to be a better human
being. He also said as pioneer head, he will try to lay a foundation
that will gradually elevate the sport to national sport, and develop a
league, “my dream is to nurture the sport to number two sport in the
country.”

Some of the other
initiative of the foundation will be the award of Changing Africa
Through Education (C.A.T.E) scholarship to Nigerian student-athletes.
In conjunction with the Katy ISD (Independent School District) and the
Rotary Club of Katy (USA), fairly used books, and supplies which were
collected from the States will be donated to Nigerian students.

The clinic, which started on the 15th will end on the 21st, after which the foundation will return to the United States.