My aims is to bring NIS to its core mandate - Comrade Shaibu ...As Musa Kida led committee presents report
The Director General of the National Institute for Sports (NIS), Comrade Philip Shaibu has promised to implement the recommendations of the 10-Year Road Map for the revitalization of Nigerian Sports.
November 11, 2025
My aims is to bring NIS to its core mandate.... Comrade Shaibu
...As Musa Kida led committee presents report
The Director General of the National Institute for Sports (NIS), Comrade Philip Shaibu has promised to implement the recommendations of the 10-Year Road Map for the revitalization of Nigerian Sports.
Shaibu made the pledge on Tuesday in Abuja during the presentation of the report by the Musa Kida-led 32-man Advisory Committee which was inaugurated in July, 2025.
Comrade Shaibu who commended the committee for its dedication and comprehensive work, assured that the recommendations would not be shelved but implemented.
"I want to thank the chairman of the committee for this report and to assure the chairman and the committee that this will not be another document that will go under the table or on the shelf. We are ready to work and we will look at all the recommendations and we'll see how we can implement them for the benefit of our country." he said.
The immediate past deputy governor of Edo State also announced that although the committee is officially dissolved but would constitute an implementation committee that will involve some of the members of the advisory committee.
"We will be releasing a list of persons that will be the advisory council for the implementation of this document and interestingly the chairman will still head the implementation. He is not just submitting this report, although the committee is dissolved but I'm setting up an advisory committee that will see to the implementation of this document.
Those that have produced the document know and understand the intention of the document. When you take this document and give it to another set of people to implement it becomes difficult or may die a natural death." Shaibu explained.
Shaibu also disclosed plans to decentralise the NIS by establishing zonal offices across the six geopolitical zones, a move aimed at expanding the institute’s reach and impact.
“The six geopolitical zones will have their own NIS offices, which will be implemented soon. Our mandate is to position the NIS as a leading sports institute in Africa,” he stated.
In his remarks, the chairman of the Advisory Committee, Engineer Musa Kida, described the report as a comprehensive document designed to address the key challenges facing the NIS and the growth of Sports in the country.
“This document fills the gaps that have long existed in the NIS. And we sincerely hope that this report finds a little place to move the needle in the very long and big race that you are in, to revamp and revitalize the Nigerian Institute of Sports." Kida said.