LGAN North Zone Golf Championship To Promote Peace, Unity, Organisers Say

Philip Daniel Yatai
Jun, Sun, 2025

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LGAN North zone golf championship to promote peace, unity, organisers say

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Organisers of the Ladies Golf Association of Nigeria (LGAN) Northern zone Golf Championship, say the tournament aims to use golf as a tool to promote peace, unity and well-being in the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than 250 golfers from across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have converged in Minna, Niger for the tournament.

The 18-hole lush green course of the Minna Cantonment Golf Club will play host to the championship as the participants slug it out for honours over the next three days.

Lami Ahmed, the 1st Vice president of the Ladies Golf Association of Nigeria (LGAN), told NAN that the objective of the championship was to promote unity, peace and well-being through golf.

Ahmed said it also aimed to motivate women to embrace the game and also to increase LGAN’s scope of exposure to the different golf courses in the North.

“We want to be able to show that when we talk about promoting unity, peace, and well-being through golf, it can happen anywhere.

“The inspiration to organise this prestigious championship in Minna came from our president, Evelyn Oyome, who has been preaching about the need for us to embrace inclusiveness.

“She has always stressed the need for us to spread the good news of golf to women so as to increase our membership.

“So, we decided that rather than just staying and enjoying ourselves at the capital, Abuja, it was important for us to share the good news up north.

“This is for women who do not believe that we can play this game, perhaps some of them have never seen a lady in a golf attire before.

“That’s why we decided to go to Kano in 2024, and Minna this year,” she said.

Ahmed noted that the tournament was the first-of-its-kind as it is the first time a zonal open championship was being held in Minna.

“This is because we must spread the good news, and we must give opportunity to every corner of this country and particularly every part of the north.

“We want to motivate women to embrace the game and also to increase our scope of exposure to the different golf courses we have in the north,” she said. (NAN)

Edited by Joseph Edeh

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