National Council of Sports has today held a Media Briefing on the status of the Uganda Boxing Federation and agreed on the following position according to the NCS Chairman, Mr. Bosco Onyik. Below is the full press release:

National Council of Sports shall financially support the National Cricket Men’s Team, the Cricket Cranes to the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division 4 slated for 28^th April 2018 to 5^th May 2018 in Malaysia.

The Assistant General Secretary- Technical, Mr. David Katende empathized the pledge during the flag off of the team to the Qatar and India Tour as a build up for the above World League tournament.

Uganda Badminton Association (UBA) has distributed equipment worth Ugx16 million from Badminton World Federation (BWF) to schools around Kampala.

The equipment includes rackets, nets, tin of balls and manuals for students to equip themselves and play the sport at their respective schools.

UBA CEO Simon Mugabi handed over the equipment to over 20 schools in the presence of National Council of Sports (NCS) Assistant General Secretary-Technical David Katende at Lugogo on Tuesday.

NCS Chairman Bosco Onyik advised federations/associations that have complied with their guidelines to step up preparations for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Australia in April 2018.
A number of national teams usually take part in Commonwealth Games and currently they are preparing to for the competitions.

But NCS Chairman Bosco Onyik said that it is only fair to allow only those national bodies that are complaint to be allowed to represent the country at the games.

NCS general secretary Nicholas Muramagi and Commissioner of sports Omara Apita have advised sports federation and associations to keep improving national team performances at the international competitions to ease the bargain for sports funding.

While they applauded the Basketball, Football, Athletics, Cricket associations and the Paralympics Committee for good performances during 2017, NCS general secretary Nicholas Muramagi said that many of the associations have stepped up their performances.

Uganda Cranes played to a goalless draw with Cote D’Ivoire in their final Group B match at Marrakech stadium on Monday night as the Cranes concluded thier journey in the continents second biggest football event i the third place in the group.