President of the Federation, Musa Osodi, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said the championship has been tentatively fixed for October this year.
Oshodi, who said the coming event was key to the judo federation, explained that grooming of budding talents to take over from the aging ones would form the priority of any good administration that wishes to develop the game.
While commending the choice Al-Hassan Yakmut as the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Oshodi said there was need to begin to appoint professionals to administer the various sports federations in the country.
“Nigeria should begin to elect or appoint professionals in certain areas just like the ex-President did recently by doing away with politicians to appoint Al-Hasan Yakmut, This should be replicated at all levels of Nigeria’s sports administration. We should not continue to discriminate even when we are still learning from the foreign countries like Japan and Korea in the game because these countries build their sports industries on professionalism,” Oshodi stated.
He blamed Nigeria’s dwindling fortunes in sports on the attitude of sports administrators, who indulge in the use and encircling of old and worn out athletes that have nothing to offer.
“What we see here is a re-circling of old athletes, who have been there since 2008 and have not won any international championships with no international ratings. They keep on re-circling them and we are tired of them.
“What we are about to do now is to adopt a system where the retiring judokas will be given the opportunity to administer the game and impart knowledge into the upcoming ones,” he concluded.
