INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS IN PRINCE ABUBAKAR AUDU UNIVERSITY, ANYIGBA

Abstract

This study examined the investigation into factors militating against future development of sports in Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba. The population of this study is made up of the athlete of Prince Abubakar Audu University Kogi state, sports council staff, sport administrators in the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 40 among athletes by using fish bowl method and complete enumeration procedure. This was done by selecting 10 available Sport council staffs (Coaches) from different games and 10 available sport administrators making a total of 60 respondents altogether.Self-structured questionnaire was used. The instrument was validated and tested for reliability using Cronbach alpha test with a co-efficient of .76 was obtained. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions. The result revealed that lack of incentives to sports participants havesignificant influence on the level of sports development, gender disparity will be a problem towards sports development, lack of provision of fund affects effective development of sports, lack of sports facilities affects effective development of sports in Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba. It is therefore recommended among others that for a sports implementation to be effective, the principles of flexibility, comprehensive, coordination, ethical and clarity, will help to attain set objectives of sports, there is need for incentives and benefits which should be in monetary and non-monetary form for Athletes and coaches.