The Minister expressed gratitude to Sir Kesington Adebutu and Alhaji Aliko Dangote for their immense contribution to Sports Development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We need to thank these two philanthropists Sir kesington Adebutu and Alhaji Aliko Dangote for their immense contribution towards sports Development.They both made the rehabilitation of the National stadium Surelere, and the Moshood Abiola  Stadium, Abuja possible with the adopt initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are also looking at the possibility of building a mini stadium or township stadium in each geo-political zone once  we have the money. The  last one  is to \u2018Adopt-A-Team\u2019 and we have seen what Total<\/em>  has done for both the Men \u2018s and Women\u2019s national Basketball teams,\u201d  Dare<\/em> concluded.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Office to the Honourable Minister of  Youth and Sports Development<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr. Sunday Dare has re-affirmed that government alone can not develop sports, insisting that only public, private partnership could off shoot sports Development. According to Mr. Dare “In an Egalitarian society, sports is developed alongside private investors. Look at countries like United kingdom, Jamaica, United States, South Africa and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}