OKEOGUN OPEN: OYO COMMUNITY LAUNCHES INAUGURAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The newly-established Oke-Ogun Tennis Club will hold its inaugural tournament in October 2024.
According to a press statement signed by the Project Coordinator of OkeOgun Green Revolution, the parent body for the club, Bola Olalere, on Friday, the tournament which is tagged OkeOgun Open will be held in Iseyin, Saki and Okeho, in Oyo State between October 1 and 26, 2024.
Being one of the initiatives of Oke Ogun Green Revolution, the tennis club is to serve as an avenue for social networking among members while they play the game of lawn tennis and engage in Agribusiness.
“With a good number of our youths relocating home for Agribusiness and several other Agriprenuer trooping into the region, we do not want them to miss anything from the city and that is why we are creating green estates with modern facilities like tennis courts across the region.
“It is therefore our pleasure to announce the formation of ‘OkeOgun Tennis Club’, The formation comes with the construction of a state-of-the-art tennis court that guarantees a safe and enjoyable experience for players inside the Commonwealth Green Estate, Elewure, Okeho where the inaugural tournament finals will be played. ” the statement read.
Olalere said that the club will create platforms that will generate networks that will make farming easier, attractive and profitable to members.
He, however, stated that the membership of the club is not limited to indigenes of OkeOgun only but is open to all citizens of the world who share in the green revolution ideology.
He also revealed that the club will have tennis courts and clubhouses in all their green estates in Iseyin, Saki, Igboho, Kisi, Sepeteri, Igbeti, Ilero, Iganna, Ago Are, Ipapo and Ado Awaye.