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As the novel coronavirus also referred to as COVID-19 continues to ravage the global community and leave in its tails deaths, the federal government has ruled out any possibility of returning sporting activities in the country in the shortest possible time, Bestchoicesports.com.ng reports

Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha who disclosed this Thursday said reopening sporting activities is not feasible now in view of large crowd they attract

Mustapha who spoke at Thursday’s briefing in Abuja on the COVID-19 situation in the country said the PTF is not excited about giving the green light for sports to return in the nation.

He noted that the few countries that have allowed sports to return are doing so with a condition that the stadiums would be empty.

“Sporting activities attract large crowd and we are saying we don’t want a gathering of more than 20 persons,” he said

Adding that “We are not excited about allowing sports to return, given the slow pace manner we are reopening the economy

“We will get there, but for now we are concerned with the few areas we have allowed” Mustapha stated.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, added that the PTF “will continue to review the situation, know how we are faring, study the situation and know what next to do based on data, science and peculiarity of our environment.”

It could be recalled that the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF announced the suspension of all football activities in the country.

The Nigeria Professional League, NPFL, has been put on hold indefinitely while the sports ministry postponed the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival as well as all other sporting activities in the country.

Additional report by George Aluo