By Victoria Amadi and Oluwabukola Afolayan
Saved City Magic Tour, an emerging sports and entertainment company, in collaboration with Lagos State Cycling Association are organizing a cycling event, designed for kids between the ages of seven and 16 .
The tour would feature games such as Queen of Monsters, Last man standing and other fun activities.
Emerging winners of the competition, which is sponsored by itel, Fanmilk, Lasena, Lagos State sports committee, would go home with Laptops, Tablets and other prizes.
Addressing a press conference to herald the tour, which holds between 29th April and 30th April at Omole Estate in Lagos, the firm’s Chairman, Ikechukwu Agada, said security measures have been put in place to ensure no accident is recorded.
Agada further, noted that the idea behind the tour is to make cycling a legitimate and globally accepted event for children.
He said: “We decided to do this thing in the night. We have two major categories. The first is the ‘Last man Standing’ which is the main category for Saturday and we have the ‘Queen of Monsters’ which is the main category for Sunday.
“There is going to be lighting effects like never before. It’s going to be in the evening. This is to awaken the sporting energy in children. It’s going to be the biggest sports event in Nigeria. We would create impressive lightening during the event.
“We have been doing this since 2017. We did it in 2017 and 2018. It was our first major indoor event. Between 2019 and 2020, we went on road race,” he noted
Director of Operations, Deborah Okiogbero said Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, representative of Minister of sports, Hon. James Abiodun, Richard Kasunmu and other dignitaries would be present at the event.
She said: ” We are still registering participants. Once you can ride, bring it on. We decided to create something different to produce unique result.
“We discover. We nurture them. We begin to find opportunities for them to showcase their talent. After the magic tour innovation, we have few other things we are planning on doing.
“We have been working on Dubai cycling tour. We promised Dubai that every summer we’ll be giving them a cycling event. We are organizing a world where children can go and showcase their talents.”