The newly established Oke-Ogun Tennis Club will hold its inaugural tournament in October.
Bola Olalere, the project coordinator of Oke-Ogun Green Revolution, the parent body for the club, said in a statement that the tournament, which is tagged OKEOGUN OPEN will hold in Iseyin, Saki and Okeho between October 1 and 26.
Olalere said the Tennis Club which is one of the initiatives of Oke Ogun Green Revolution is to serve as an avenue for social networking among members while they play the game of lawn tennis and engages in agribusiness.
“With a good number of our youths relocating home for the purpose of Agribusiness and several other Agriprenuer trooping into the region, we do not want them to miss anything from the city and that is why we are creating green estates with modern facilities like tennis courts across the region,” the statement reads.
“It is therefore our pleasure to announce the formation of OkeOgun Tennis Club. The formation comes with the construction of a state-of-the-art Tennis Court that guarantee safe and enjoyable experience for players inside the Commonwealth Green Estate, Elewure, Okeho where the inaugural tournament finals will be played.”
Olalere said the club will create platforms that will generate networks that will make farming easier, attractive and profitable to members.
He added that the membership of the club is not limited to indigenes of Oke-Ogun only but open to all citizens of the world who shares in the green revolution ideology.
He also revealed that the club will have tennis courts and club houses in all their green estates in Iseyin, Saki, Igboho, Kisi, Sepeteri, Igbeti, Ilero, Iganna, Ago Are, Ipapo and Ado Awaye.
