 Some stakeholders have commanded the annual National Junior Table Tennis Championship, which promotes sports and education for upcoming players. The initiative aimed to regenerate development of the sport and help the Nigerian Table Tennis Federation to unearth talent while also empowering the youngsters with educational scholarship. At addition of the Doctor Adebui Efunkoya Junior Table Tennis Championship, held in Lagos saw 64 players from 12 states and 10 clubs participated in a three-day event. The on-the-fifteen competition was concluded in Lagos with Victor Joseph from Kogi State and Aisha Rabiu from Aruna Sports Club claiming top honours. Joseph defeated Tobi Adebui from Ozonte Botanist Club 3-0 to claim the boys title and he matched the most valuable player. In the girls' final, Rabiu defeated her teammate Taiwo Akonbi 3-1 to lift the title and she was voted the most valuable player in the female category. Firstly, I thank God for my coach and my dad for encouraging me for this table tennis. I can't believe that I can reach final at this stage. The National Junior Tournament was organised by the Foundation in memory of Doctor Adebui Efunkoya, a former president of the Nigerian Table Tennis Association, who helped grow the sport and produced some of the best players in the country. The importance of this competition is to build up the young talent in table tennis. The future of table tennis is the young ones. You have to catch them young, you have to build them, give them the confidence they need, allow them to express their talents and then give them guidance. That's why there are so many coaches here. You give them guidance in what they are doing and the foundation, what the foundation focuses on is two different things. One is developing the talent and one is also giving them an educational background to give them grants so that they can have an educational balance. So that they have two problems in which they are going about developing a future talent in Nigeria. Well, you and I will know that certainly we need a developmental programme at this level. I don't know if it's up there, but like you did, it's up there. Those that will take over from then are these ones. After this event, our plan is to take them through seminars, coaching seminars, clinics and the rest because we know that even at this level that we are seeing, it's not enough compared to what you have in the rest of Africa.