Whitehouse and Laglad restaurants behind the Indoor Sports Hall, National Stadium, Lagos, being demolished ... on Friday.
The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, has said the National Stadium in Lagos will not be put up for sale.
The stadium last hosted a major competition in 2005, and Adedoja, who admitted there were calls for the facility to be privatised, said on Friday it would not be sold.
“What we’ll do is to collaborate with the private sector in managing the stadium and all other sporting facilities across the nation. There is no plan to sell the National Stadium, Lagos and it will not be sold,” Adedoja said.
Adedoja said the NSC had plans to make the sports associations more efficient and result-oriented.
He said, “Every association will be given its budgetary allocation, no matter how small it is. All secretaries of the associations will be judged by how they maximally utilise the funds available to them – the number of competitions they are able to organise and how much sponsorship they are going to bring to their associations. The time of doing things without focus is over.
“It is apparent that a central budget will not work in sports. Every association will be held responsible for its programmes based on the funds available to it.”
Adedoja added that athletes preparing for the All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique, would start camping next month.
“We want to collaborate with the private sector in camping the athletes for the All Africa Games,” he said, “The NSC however hopes and plans to have the athletes in camping before the end of March.”
Source:punchng.com
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