The Nigeria Olympic Commission (NOC) has constituted 11 committees to assist the commission to promote the ideals of the Olympic Movement in the country, it has been gathered.
A source at the NOC said that the commission was specially requested to include two committees into its fold by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The two special committees are the Liaison & Culture and Sports and Environment.
The nine other committees are the Marketing, Technical, Athletes, Olympic Education and Sport-For-All.
The rest are the Medical and Scientific, Ethics and Appeals, Women and Sports, Anti-doping and the Amuwo Odofin Project.
An official at the NOC said the committees would be headed by competent members of the NOC executive board.
The source said that committees would be inaugurated on a yet-to-be fixed date by the NOC, led by Habu Ahmed Gumel.
Gumel, a vice-president of International Volleyball Federation and Nigeria’s lone member in the IOC is the highest ranked Nigerian in international sporting movement.