Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung
Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has called on state governors to change their attitude towards Nigeria’s sport development by making adequate budgetary provisions for the sector.
He said the experiences of some sport directors during the 19th National Sports Festival in Abuja was very pathetic as most of them had to travel to Abuja with the hope that funds would be made avoidable, but in the end had to organise emergency fund raising before they could participate in the tournament.
Speaking yesterday in Benin during the extraordinary meeting of the National Council on Sports, Dalung said: “I am still going back to the National Economic Council to address the governors on sports development in the country. If you brought high blood pressure testing machine here, most of the sport directors would test positive not because of their personal problem but because they usually don’t have money to take care of their athletes during…
