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The athletes from the South-south state carried placards.

The closing ceremony will be a blend of entertainment, sports and cultural display.

The athletics event at the festival has provided some breathtaking performances.

Team Ondo won 4 of the 10 gold medals available in Women’s Wrestling.

Delta athletes have shown dominant displays in most of the events.

Others lined up for Sunday’s closing ceremony include Seyi Shay and CDQ.

Boxers from the United Kingdom, Ghana, Australia and Mexico are top on the list of those expected in Nigeria for some world title bouts.

Six states are yet to win any medal as at close of competition on Wednesday evening.

Peace Uko who is the defending champion could only settle for the silver medal in the women’s 100m.

At the close of activities on Tuesday, Kano already have seven gold, nine silver, and 10 bronze medals in the kitty.

The first event in athletics will be the Women’s 5000m event.

The six-time Olympian was dumped out of the Women’s Singles event on Monday by Team Lagos’ Nimota Aregbesola who battled to a 4-3 win.

Nathaniel Usman opened the scoring at the 18th minute through a penalty corner.

A 56-year-old was in the team that defeated the Olympians.

Team Delta won more than half of the total medals up for grabs in the first day of the Swimming event on Saturday.

Ibrahim Olaitan was the heroine for Osun as she won gold after lifting 125 kg in the Powerlifting Event.

The gold won by Okpochini opened the floodgates of medals for Team Delta on Saturday.

Gladys Tombrapa of Rivers got the gold medal in the women’s 200 metres cycling event.

The athletes speak on their victory at the competition.

The last National Sports Festival was held six years ago.

The football team had earlier on, in the zonal stage of the competition (8th-18th November), clinched the South-West Zonal ticket, after defeating FGC Ijanikin 2 -1.

Eleven Nigerian players were in the top 40 on the continent.