Buhari ordered merging of sports ministry, NSC – Minister
Source: Punch
President Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive for the merger of the National Sports Commission with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, the minister in charge, Mr. Solomon Dalung has said.
Dalung said this when he received a team from the Bureau of Public Enterprises led by Acting Director General, Dr. Vincent Akpotaire, according to a statement made available to our correspondent by Head of Public Communications at BPE, Mr. Alex Okoh, in Abuja on Wednesday.
He also disclosed that the scraping of the Office of Director General of NSC was directed by the presidential, adding that the creation of the commission had no legal backing.
Dalung expressed happiness over the enthusiasm shown by the private sector to participate in the planned reforms of the sports sector, saying that the ministry had received offers from many investors in that regard.
He called on private investors to take advantage of the proposed sports' reforms to invest in the sector adding that not doing so would result in investing in criminality as the teeming idle Nigerian youths would have no vocation to turn to, but take to crime.
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Thursday, 10 March 2016
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