WAUG 2023: OAU To Face UI Today

The basketball team of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, hosts of the 2023 West African Universities Games (WAUG) will be facing its counterpart from the University of Ibadan, today, December 19, by 8am.

As contained in the schedule of activities, the basketball match will be the curtain raiser for the other long list of sporting activities that will cut across the participating universities in the competition.

Osun Defender reports that WAUG, also known as the ECOWAS Students Games, is a multi-sport event between student-athletes from West African universities.

The first edition of the competition was held in 1965 at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university.

It has been held for four to six years since 1989. OAU, then the University of Ife, had hosted the games only once. It hosted the sixth edition of the competition in 1975.

Nigerian universities that have hosted the games in the past are the University of Ibadan, which hosted the first edition in 1965; University of Lagos, fourth edition, 1971; University of Ife (now OAU), sixth edition, 1975; University of Benin, ninth edition, 1995; University of Ilorin, 13th edition, 2012; and University of Port Harcourt, the last and 14th edition, in 2018.