The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Olushade Adesola has endorsed the existence of Sports Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (SOPAN), Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report.

The endorsement came when he received in audience, members of the Executives of the fastest growing Association at his office in Abuja, Thursday.

In a release made available to Best Choice Sports and signed by the Public Relations Officer of the association, Olaoluwa Aro, it noted that the Permanent Secretary who received the team in his office, expressed joy on the visit and commended the association for their role in the last year’s National Sports Festival held in the FCT and expressed the ministry’s resolve and total commitment to work with the new association

“We are glad to welcome SOPAN in our midst as we believe in your capacity to lifting and putting the Ministry of Youths and Sports in Spotlights.

“Your immerse contributions during the 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja overwhelmed us, with the consistent reportage of the sporting events ” Olushade acknowledged

The versatile Permanent secretary agreed to collaborate with SOPAN with a bid to create more awareness about the Ministry.

“Sports generally is a media event and we are happy to collaborate with SOPAN especially by promoting all our activities. Our doors are windely open to ideas on how Ministry of youth and sports development can be moved forward; your constructive Criticisms are welcome as well,” he explained

Responding on behalf of SOPAN, Secretary of the association, Aderonke Bello who led the delegation in the absence of the Chairman and his vice, thanked the ministry for the partnership.

“We are gratified to be working with Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, to particularly help cover and report all the activities. We are all Publishers, thus we can bend the media space to placing the ministry on the World map; we would continue to professionally remind the ministry what it stand for when the need arises ” Aderonke Reiterated

It could be recalled that just before he left office, the immediate past Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Barrister Solomon Selcap Dalung also inked down his endorsement of Sports Online Publishers Association of Nigeria.

SOPAN executives who paid the courtesy call to the Permanent secretary of Youths and Sports Development Ministry were; Aderonke Bello( Secertary ), Francis Achi (Financial secretary), Joel Ajayi (Treasurer), Folusho Alade (Welfare officer) and Olaoluwa Aro( Public Relations officer).