KOKOTIKO

There is little doubt about how sports has contributed to the development of the world from all perspective of human endeavours. From recent examples of how tennis stars raised millions of dollars to address the havoc caused by the 2019 Australia bush fire to using the 1995 Rugby World Cup to mark the end of Apartheid and to unite the people of South Africa to long-standing campaigns and activities of how individuals and organizations have used sports to promote education, social cohesion, fight stigmatization and discrimination to bringing economic freedom and empowerment to many especially people from poverty afflicted communities and countries, Sports has done so much to promote development and peace than I can ever enumerate or appreciate, it is a story that can best be related by the millions of people it has impacted. Given the above contributions of sports to global development, the United Nations General Assembly with the support of International Olympic Committee on th...