The Nation Newspaper NSCO PRESIDENT,ANOZIE UGENYI: How we're uniting Nigerians with sports, culture in U.S
, Prince Anozie Ugenyi considers himself to be an all-round Nigerian. A quality that has helped him steer the ship of the United States-based Nigerian Sports and Cultural Organisation to the right part.
“I have always loved cultural things. It was a little bit difficult to merge sports and culture because they don’t like they fall in the same category, however, we managed to do that. That was how we decided that we would be having an annual carnival.“On the carnival day, Nigerians come from all walks of life together. Nigerians are hard-working people and if you allow them they will work 24/7.
“We deliberately go out of our way to bring new things. There are young Nigerians who have never seen masquerade before. Masquerade became the big thing that they always looked forward to. And we create opportunities for them to compete in Afrobeat music and they love it. We have achieved a lot. It is a melting pot for Nigeria with people coming from all parts of New Jersey and its environs.
“NSCO provided the team that won the Embassies Soccer World Cup here in the United States last year. Nigeria won it for the very first time and the NSCO under my leadership provided the players for that event. We help organise supporters here for the Nigerian teams whenever the national teams are in the U.S. We have met with former NFF president Amaju Pinnick and presented what we feel is the way forward for Nigerian soccer.
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