Gbolahan Salman SokotoNineteen secondary schools across Sokoto state have registered to participate in this year’s state preliminaries of the Nestle Milo Secondary School Basketball Championing.At a meeting with games masters, presided over by Malam Bashir Ibrahim, the state Coordinator of NSSF, ten male and nine female schools indicated interest to participate in the state preliminaries slated from March 1 to March 12, 2022.The ten schools that will do battle for the state sole ticket in the male category are, Sultan Atiku Secondary School, Sultan Bello Secondary School, Sani Dingyadi Unity Secondary School, Shehu Shagari College of Education Staff School, Idris Koko Technical College, Government Day Secondary School, Kwanawa, A.A. Raji Special School, Giginya Memorial Secondary School, Government Secondary School, Sabon Birnin and Sultan Abubakar College.Leading the pack in the female category are Nana Girls Secondary School, Government Day Secondary School, Kwanawa, Government Girls College Islamic Science, Modibo Adama Girls Arabic School, Maruda, Shehu Shagari College of Education Staff School, Government Girls College Science School, Hafsatu Ahmadu Bello Memorial Arabic Secondary School, HABMASS, Government Girls Memorial Secondary School, Illela and Government Girls Day Secondary School, Running Sambo.Winners in both male and female categories, will join their counterparts nationwide in the zonal hostilities.Ilorin, Kwara state has been picked as host of the Central Conference that will hold at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Kwara state Stadium Complex, between Saturday 14 to Friday 20, May 2022.Sokoto will slug it out with seven other states and Abuja at the Central Conference. The other states are Benue, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kwara, Niger, Nasarawa and Plateau state.Kano will host the Savannah Conference at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Sani Abacha Stadium between Saturday 7 to Friday 13 May, 2022, while hostilities in Equatorial Conference is expected to hold between Saturday 21 and Friday 27 May, 2022, at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.The Western Conference in Ibadan will commence from Saturday 28 May and end on Friday 3rd June, 2022, while the national finals has been scheduled to hold between Saturday 25 June to Friday 1st July, 2022.Milo Secondary School Basketball Championship, now in its 22nd edition, is the biggest grassroots basketball competition where many of the talented students have been harnessed and integrated into the mainstream of basketball at national and international levels.
