Author: Tbite

FOLLOWING the plan by the National Sports Commission to privatise the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, the Lagos State Government has signified interest to take over the facility.

Tribunesports scooped that the Lagos State Government has submited its bidding documents to the technical committee set up by the NSC to look into privatisation of the facility . And the bidding, according to the source is receiving favourable consideration from the committee which is expected to storm the state for on the spot assessment any moment from now.

The decision of the state government to acquire the National Stadium was as a result of its plan to bid for the 2020 Olympics. The government had argued that for it to actualise its dream of hosting the Olympics, it need a world-class arena and as such decided to take over the running of the National Stadium and carry out some renovations instead of constructing a new sporting arena of Olympics standard.

The source added that some structure would be put up such as a standard Games Village around the arena to boost the chances of getting the hosting rights.