IFEANYI EZUGWU, ENUGU.
The Enugu State Government has formally taken over the management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu from the federal government yesterday.
A release signed by Chukwudi Achife, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sullivan Chime said the hand over ceremony took place at the Stadium premises along Ogui Road, Enugu.
The Director General of the National Sports Commission Gbenga Elegbeleye, performed the ceremony on behalf of the federal Government while Governor Chime received the keys and other documents to the stadium on behalf of the Enugu State Government.
It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan had in July, this year approved an application by Governor Chime to the hand over of the stadium to the Enugu State Government.
The Governor had cited as on his reasons for the application the need to enhance development of sports from the grassroot level and to discover young talents in their very early ages.
This had come on the heels of the the Governor’s successful revival of among other things, the secondary School Sports festival after more than twenty years in abeyance.
A release signed by Chukwudi Achife, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sullivan Chime said the hand over ceremony took place at the Stadium premises along Ogui Road, Enugu.
The Director General of the National Sports Commission Gbenga Elegbeleye, performed the ceremony on behalf of the federal Government while Governor Chime received the keys and other documents to the stadium on behalf of the Enugu State Government.
It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan had in July, this year approved an application by Governor Chime to the hand over of the stadium to the Enugu State Government.
The Governor had cited as on his reasons for the application the need to enhance development of sports from the grassroot level and to discover young talents in their very early ages.
This had come on the heels of the the Governor’s successful revival of among other things, the secondary School Sports festival after more than twenty years in abeyance.
