Speaking during the inauguration of the committee, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, said the committee has a mandate to bring back the lost glory of the edifice
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He made the appeal on Thursday at the final of the Aare Gani Adams U13 football tourney at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos
Akinlotan said that the complex was meant for sporting activities and not a residential place
The inspection kick starts what will eventually end up as a cooperation between the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government to renovate the National Stadium
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated this during a condolence visit on the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, in Abuja at the weekend
The police had earlier warned against the protest
The minister, who made this known while fielding questions from State House correspondents, said the Federal Executive Council approved the concession of the stadia in 2012
With the approval, the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, will constitute the Project Steering Committee and the Project Delivery Committee, which will liaise with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission to draw up modalities for the concessioning
A secretary of one of the federations, who pleaded anonymity, said that most of the workers could not resume early due to the rainfall
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