Federal Govt Set To Hand Over Ahmadu Bello Stadium To Kaduna Govt

The minister of youth and sports activities growth, Mr Sunday Dare, has revealed that as a part of his resolve to make sure that Nigeria will not be missing in befitting sports activities services throughout the nation plans have reached the ultimate stage of transfering the Ahmadu Bello Stadium to Kaduna State authorities.

He mentioned the 16,000 capability stadium which was designed by English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry in 1965 shall be handed over to the state authorities for additional growth right into a multi-sports facility consistent with the federal authorities’s adopt-a-sports facility initiative.

Dare, whose administration as Nigeria’s Sports activities Minister has recorded an unprecedented revamp of sports activities infrastructures within the nation, disclosed this whereas chatting with newsmen in Abuja just lately, saying good infrastructures are the fulcrum of sports activities growth.

“We got here to the realisation that on the coronary heart of sports activities growth is to have infrastructures and services which might be befitting for such lofty ambitions. So my staff and I, set out a grand plan to alter the narrative on sports activities infrastructures in Nigeria.

“As a result of capital-intensive nature of those initiatives, we engaged the non-public sector to see how we may leverage on public-private partnerships and we introduced the non-public sector on board.

We’re on the final stage of handing over the Ahmadu Bello Stadium to Kaduna State authorities for transformation and to maintain it,” Dare mentioned.

Because the begin of Sunday Dare’s administration, the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium, Abuja has been revived and has gone on to cross the FIFA and CAF take a look at, because it has hosted quite a few worldwide matches.

Additionally, the Nationwide Stadium, Surulere which was deserted for years is on the verge of being utterly rotated. Moreso, the Daura Township Stadium has been reworked for the utilization of about 45 groups within the space, after the well-known floor was left to rot.

The Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan and different services are additionally set for transformation underneath the healthful plans of the Ministry led by Hon. Sunday Dare.