The two mega national stadia in the country, Lagos and Abuja, have been slated for concession by the Federal Government.
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, who announced this on Wednesday at the post-Federal Executive Council meeting, said government can no longer maintain the mega facilities.
According to him, two of the four other stadia owned by the Federal Government have been handed over to the nost state governments.
They are the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium, Enugu and the Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi.
Abdullahi also expressed the hope that the Obafemi Awolowo and Ahamadu Bello stadia in Oyo and Kaduna States respectively will be taken over by their host state governments.
He added: “You will recall that last year, Mr. President set up an inter-ministerial committee to come up with a sustainable plan for managing these two mega sporting structures.
“Since then, we have been working with the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission to come up with the framework for concessioning the facilities to the private sector.
“The ICRC has started advertising projects that could come up under concession and they told me that the two stadia, Lagos and Abuja, are among the next round of advertising they will do for concession.
“So, the direction we are having on these two facilities is concession to the private sector people that can operate them.
“The Enugu stadium has been approved by the president for release to the Enugu State Government.
“The Bauchi State Government has applied to Mr. President for us to release the Bauchi stadium to the Bauchi State Government.
“So, we hope that other state governments will also take on other stadia because it is no longer possible for the Federal Government to continue to maintain these facilities.”
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