I founded the Sports Psychology Association of Nigeria (SPA… - Bola Ikulayo

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I founded the Sports Psychology Association of Nigeria (SPAN) in June 1985 to coincide with my month of birth, and also to coincide with the foundation of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) which is approximately twenty years older than SPAN. The association was founded as my contribution to sports development.

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Bola Philomena Ikulayo (2 June 1948 – 24 March 2016) was the first Nigerian female professor of sport psychology and the founder of Sport Psychology of the Association of Nigeria (SPAN).

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Education would become the instrument of my liberation.

I want to help my nation. I want to help the athletes to appreciate their own potentials. One of the ways to do this is to know themselves and to learn some psychological skills and attributes that will make them excel and enhance their performance.

When I was young, I wanted to be a great person. I also wanted to avoid things that happened to my parents. There and then, I made up my mind that if I ever get married, I won’t live apart; I won’t quarrel. Whatever is the problem I would stomach it.

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