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ABUJA;The Nigeria Academicals Sports Committee (NASCOM) believes with Rhythm N’ Play, two million kids would voluntarily embrace sports across the country in the next two years. As President Goodluck Jonathan officially launches Rhythm N’ Play, an initiative of NASCOM, on Thursday June 6, 2013 in Abuja, efforts would be geared toward collaborating with stakeholders to achieve this target. According to Chairman of NASCOM, Yemi Idowu, the target is realistic, considering the collaboration with Nigeria School Sports Federation (NSSF) and Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON). “With Rhythm N’ Play, we are targeting two million students in two years and we are hoping that the Rhythm N’ Play programme will cover about 60 students per school in at least 50 schools in each state of the federation on a monthly basis. “We think it is a realistic target, which has been set by the Minister of Sports/Chairman, National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, when he approv...