A new National Sports Medicine and High-Performance Center will be built, according to an announcement made by Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development.
The proposed facility, which will be located at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Lagos, has received approval from the federal government for a total of N2.4 billion.
Sunday Dare announced this to media in Abuja on Wednesday and stated that the center’s development will be finished in 2026.
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The Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday at the State House in Abuja, which reportedly lasted for nearly eight hours, approved this project. President Muhammadu Buhari was represented at the meeting by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The projected High-Performance Centre, according to Sunday Dare, has a built-in maintenance system to avoid the project from losing its effectiveness like other government-owned facilities.
The minister said, “The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development presented just one memo. The memo has to do with the National Sports Medicine and High-Performance Center and the construction of a High-Performance Center at the Package B of the Moshood Abiola Stadium.
“Over time in the past decades, one of the drawbacks of sports development and athlete’s development has been the lack of a high-performance center. Global sports development practice has a High-Performance Center as a major component of conditioning its athletes, it takes your athletes beyond just raw talent to some level of sports science and precision.
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“The lack of that scientific input into our sports development over time has not helped us to reach the maximum podium performance that can be attained by athletes.”
Dare added, “The ministry, two days ago (Monday), released the list of renovations that have taken place at the Moshood Abiola stadium. 24 renovations and upgrades have taken place at the stadium in Surulere. 16 upgrades have taken place over time. More than 11 functional areas.
“I must say for the record that we’ve been able to bring about a culture of maintenance for the High-Performance Centre. We’re building in two to four years of maintenance for Dangote that fix the main bowl. We built in two-year maintenance.
“Surulere, Premier Loto, two years maintenance with possible renewal, and I agree that without a maintenance culture, no matter how much we invest in our sporting facilities or any building infrastructure for that matter. They will go bad.”
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