By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Calabar
AHEAD of the 2014 National Sports Festival to be hosted by Cross River State, African Club has installed and commissioned an ultra-modern gymnastic equipment, a Volley Ball Court as well as planning to put in place an utra-modern Squash Court, in Calabar, the state capital.
Already, the football unit of African Club has discovered two youths and sponsored them to play professional football in Nigeria and Ghana.
Speaking at the commissioning of the gymnastic equipment, weekend, the President of the club, Barrister Ferdinando Otudor explained that the newly installed equipment will serve not only members of the club, but also the public that will like to make use of them.
Otudor said it would help members of the club to live longer as a coach had been hired for those that would make use of facilities, adding that African Club was established out of protest in 1903 as a result of the apathy by the colonial masters against Nigerians in the European club that now metamorphosed to Calabar club Sports.
The Gymnastic which was named after the grand patron of the club, Chief Inameti Henshaw, has Trojam Elliptic cycle, Dual Action Calorie Monitor, Luxurious Blood Circulative Massager, two Stallion Gyms, Trojam 5kg, Teeter Hang-up, stallion bicycle, Climber, Bench and Treadmill with two Massager cost several millions.
Also speaking after the commissioning, the Team Manager, Engr. Maurice Ekanem disclosed that the football section has table tennis unit and that two talents discovered by the club, one of them, Lawrence Okon is playing for Adida FC, a division two club side in Ghana, while Ekpo Okon played for
Vanguard Nigeria