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Basketball: Parents, kids yearn for more at Milo Clinic

PARTICIPANTS at the recently held 2008 edition of the Nestle Milo Basketball Summer Clinic have pleaded for the continuation and expansion of the catch-them-young project to keep youths positively engaged during their summer holidays.

Over one thousand kids and parents thronged the National Stadium Lagos venue of the event.
Speaking during an interactive session between organisers and the parents, Mrs. Akinbode Georgina, who came with her daughter all the way from Abeokuta, Ogun State, commended Nestle Milo for taking adequate care not only of the children but their parents and guardians throughout the one week duration of the clinic.

“We give kudos to Nestle Milo as the only corporate organization which has shown commitment to imparting basketball skills in the youth through their unique grassroots programmes and we want them to continue to do more for the good of the children and for the good of the game”, she said.

Responding,Nestlé’s Category Business Manager (Beverages), Mr. Walter Okafor urged the parents to also play their own part by providing the necessary equipment such as basketballs and cheap uprights so that the children can continue their training both at home and in school throughout the year.

“This is the only way they can be able to improve enough to participate in the annual Nestle Milo Secondary Schools Basketball Championship, the forum from which many popular Nigerian national and international basketball stars are first discovered”, he said.