Youth and Sports minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung has inaugurated an eight-man committee with a task of assessing and evaluating all sporting facilities in the country.

The committee headed by Dr Agboola Adewale Dixon voluntarily offered to carry out a comprehensive inspection of all national mini sporting facilities in the country and generate an  information data bank for the ministry.

Inaugurating the committee, Barrister  Dalung praised the group for their patriotism and commitment to restoring the dignity of sports in Nigeria.

“ Out of self volition, you have identified a peculiar challenge of sports development and decided to offer yourselves to go round the country and collate statistics and data, and write a comprehensive report on the state of facilities in the country.

You have already undertaken preliminary investigations and you have provided pictures and images of the situation on ground. Knowing the state of these facilities will enable us to take action on how to put them back to use” Dalung said.

The committee is expected to also examine the sports health system, clinics , anti- doping centers, rehabilitative, curative and preventive areas of sports medicine to be integrated into these sports facilities as well as quick intervention to injury prevention which are not in place at the various mini sports centres.

According to Dr Dixon, the report will enable the ministry know how many facilities there are in the country, their locations, their present state and what is needed to make them functional.

“ This data could be used within or outside the country for the world to know what we have. We’ve already done some research work. We’ve gone round to take some photographs showing the various mini sports complexes in the country.

They’re about eighteen in number. Some are yet to be completed while   the Afuze National Training Center, Mambila Middle and long distance training center and the Rayfield sports center   which produced many Olympians and national record holders have   been lying fallow for many years” Dr Dixon explainedAccording to Dr Dixon, the report will enable the ministry to know how many facilities there are in the country, their locations, their present state and what is needed to make them functional.