The National Stadium, Lagos is again in the news for the wrong reason after one of the floodlights inside the dilapidated sporting arena collapsed following a downpour Wednesday morning.
Wednesday’s incident comes barely two weeks after the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, who was on an inspection visit to the National Stadium to assess the level of work at the decaying national monument, said the Federal Government would need a staggering N21bn to renovate the stadium.
“What is needed to fix the National Stadium Surulere after 17 plus years of neglect is in excess of 21 billion naira, about 45 million dollars, of which we have just about 500m naira from private and government funding. There is a limit to what can be fixed,” the 56-year-old minister wrote on Twitter after his latest inspection of the stadium.
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