The National Youth Authority (NYA) organized an Inter-Agency Football Gala at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday.

The event which forms part of activities marking this year's National Youth Month celebration brought together staff and representatives from various agencies for a day of sports, team bonding, and healthy competition.

Alongside the football gala, participants engaged in football, sack race, table tennis, oware, cards, ludo, sack race, scrabble, lime and spoon.

In the football competition, Youth Employment Agency (YEA) beat National Youth Authority (NYA) 4-2 on penalties after a kindly contested final to be crowned champions.

Speaking on the initiative, NYA Deputy CEO Inusah Mahama said the competition forms part of activities marking this year’s National Youth Month celebration.

“We’re organizing this competition as part of National Youth Month. It is one of the responsibilities of the National Youth Authority to organize National Youth Month, and we have a lot of activities lined up,” he said.

“We had the National Youth Celebration at KNUST in Kumasi. Now, we’ve organized the inter-agency games. On Tuesday, we’ll be organizing the Youth Parliament, and on Thursday, we’ll have the Intergenerational Dialogue. We’ll then climax the celebrations at Independence Square with the National Youth Celebration.”

The event is part of NYA’s continued efforts to promote youth engagement, unity, and active living.