17 villages to participate in 2023/2024 edition UDU Ugwuoba youth wings football tournament

By Ifeoma Ikem


Organisers of the Ugwuoba youth wings of 2023/2024 OYOYO football tournament has announced the date for the commencement of this year edition of the youth competition.

Speaking on the coming OYOYO man football tournament, Mr Afamuefuna Nwokeocha Gbuyee (omekaodimma), the youth wing president said the increase in the number of participating teams showed that the competition is extending to the excitement of the youths in Ugwuoba.

The grassroots football tournament is scheduled to take place from December 26 2023 to January 1, 2024 where 17 teams were drawn from the 17 villages that made up the Ugwuoba town in Oji River Local Government Area, Enugu State.

The tournament is designed to equip our youths with core values, knowledge and skills needed to realise their full potential as leaders of the next generation.

According to him, UDU Ugwuoba youths wing football tournament was designed to harness youthful skills and organize young talents to enable our esteemed philanthropists to empower ,engaged them positively and catch them young among other youths in the state metropolis.

" This youths football tournament unified our youthful ideas ,as it fostered oneness, promotes disciplines, open love and refines character among our youths, as well as bringing in developmental changes in Ugwuoba,he added.

"For more villages participating this season; this simply means we are extending the excitement and joy of the tournament to more of our youth within the community which is an unspeakable joy.

"This shows the great level of preparation the able chairman Mr Mmaduakor Chinonso (Titi Camara) and his committee members have put in place.

He thanked the sponsor of this year football tournament Chief Sunday Ikwumeleze OYOYO for his magnanimous donations and for adding other attractions to the edition.

"Our thanks also goes to the pioneer sponsor Chief Innocent Ndidi Madukaife (Igwemmirri sumo ) for his continuous rendering of love to Ugwuoba youths.


"I want to use this medium to appreciate my fellow youths for our longtime choices of great modesty and profound integrity merged with hard work, this 2023/2024 tournament has a lot of packaging from the kick off match December 26 to the grand finale on 01/01/2024".

He, therefore, commended the president general, high chief Ossy Omah (Okanume) for his fatherly role since the inception of the OYOYO football tournament and for promising to conduct and inaugurate the UDU Ugwuoba Youths Wing against all odds.

"Despite all these, you still made sure we achieved more than enough, through what you have placed for the youth so far.

"May lord almighty keep blessing, favoring you and the executive bountifully, I implore everyone to join hands together in moving our community forward", he added.


Gbuyee said the OYOYO football tournament is in support of Chief Atuba Ernest (Nwakanwa global,) Hon Barr Frank Udemuezue, Past Chairman Oji River Local, Chief Enukaorah Anayo (Anino) Chief Chukwujekwu Igbo(,Synco) and a man with a golden heart for ndi Ugwuoba and President of Eminent club of Ugwuoba Nze Chimaobi David.


On his part,the Secretary General of Ugwuoba Development Union (UDU) Dr Uche Chukwuemeka have charged UDU youths to equip themselves with the skill that would enable them become responsible in future.

He expressed confident that this year edition of OYOYO man football tournament would provide great opportunity for our youth to be transformed and also exposed them globally