ESUT To Participate in 10 Sporting Events at 27th NUGA Games
By Amaechi Agbo
Enugu – As the dates for the 2025 Nigeria Universities Games (NUGA) draw closer, Team ESUT will participate in 10 sporting events, ESUT Monitor can report
The number of events were confirmed following the conclusion of Zone O qualification series in Enugu on Saturday.
The 10 events Team Enugu will participate in include: Football, volleyball, throws and jumps, track events, table tennis, badminton, chess, Scrabble, swimming and e- sports.
The 27th edition of NUGA will hold from 6th to 16th November, 2025 at the University of Jos, Plateau State.
The NUGA Games serve as Nigeria’s premier inter-university sports competition, featuring 7,457 accredited athletes and officials from across the country, competing in multiple sporting disciplines.
NUGA is a biennial event that brings together student-athletes from universities across Nigeria, promoting FISU’s motto: “Excellence in Mind and Body.” FISU has a general motto of “Excellence in Mind and Body,” which promotes combining high-level sports performance with academic pursuits.
Founded 1965, following the 1st West African University Games at the University of Ibadan, over 80 universities (private and public) and more than 75,000 athletes have participated in the Games since inception.
