KWARA Govt to renovate , upgrade baseball pitch

Date: 2018-01-10

The Kwara State Government is to carry out major renovation work and upgrade the facilities at the Baseball and Softball Pitch at Adewole Estate In Ilorin , the Kwara state capital to meet both local and international standards. The State commissioner for youth and sports, Pharmacist Kale Ayo confirmed this development in his office during an interview with VON.

Pharmacist Ayo said the state governor , Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has already given approval for the renovation which is expected to commence very soon.

According to him , the major purpose for the upgrading of the pitch is to serve as venue for the forth coming trade fair to be organized by the Kwara state chamber of commerce , industry , mines and agriculture , (KWACCIMA ) in the state.

The commissioner said after the upgrading, the base ball pitch would also be used for other useful purposes .

Reacting to the development , the President of KWACCIMA , Alhaji Ahmed Raji said he was overwhelmed that the governor had conceded to their request for the use of the pitch for their forthcoming trade fair .

He also commended the state government for agreeing to renovate and upgrade the facilities .

Alhaji Raji disclosed that all hands are on deck to ensure that a befitting trade fair of international standard that would further expose the potentials of the state and the nation is opened to the entire world and bring in more investors.

According to him , various committees shall soon be put in place to work towards ensuring a hitch free 2018 KWARA state International trade fair which is expected to hold by the middle of this year.

It would be recalled that the pitch was built in 1990 by the Federal Government at the cost of fifty million Naira and commissioned by the then Vice President, Augustus Aikhomu .

But for sometime now, the pitch has fallen into disrepair as the roofing has almost entirely gone, the fence has broken down , the walls coming down and the paints completely pealing off the walls of the pitch.

A cross- section of some people who spoke on the plans of the state government to renovate and upgrade the pitch described it as as welcome development adding that when completed , would serve for various purposes including sporting activities which was the initial purpose for constructing the edifice.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olaosebikan     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Peculiar Allowance     Kulende     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     V.O. Abioye     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Ghali Muhammed     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Peter Obi     Saka Keji     Abdulkarim Adisa     Olam Food Ingredients     Apaokagi     Alabere     Gwanara     Plat Technologies     Hamidu Olowo     United Nigeria Airline     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Sadiq Umar     Third Estate     Ibrahim Abiodun     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Read With Me     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Post-utme     Undergraduate Bursary     Ohoro Of Shao     Musa Alhassan Buge     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Abdulazeez Arowona     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Baboko Primary School     Segun Olawoyin     SSA Youth Engagement     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Rasaq Jimoh     Bola Sagaya     Ilorin West     Ahmed Bayero     Mashood Dauda     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     General Hospital     Oni Adebayo     Kubra Kazum     George Funsho Adebayo     Odo-Owa     Bashir Adigun     Al-Hikmah Radio     Mohammed Danjuma     Magaji Nda     Jumoke F. Ajao     Toyin Saraki     Aso-ofi     Lateef Alagbonsi     Ajibike Katibi     Muslim Cementary     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Fareedah Dankaka     Alanamu     Yahaya Dumoye     Maryam A. Garuba     Abdulwahab Oba     Vasolar     Lithium Deposit     Kwara South     Earlyon Technologies     Olatunji Moronfoye     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Ilesha-Baruba     Segun Abifarin     Kwasu     Smart School     Aso Ofi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olatunde Olukoya     Ladi Hassan     Jumoke F. Ajao     Tanke Road     SSA Youth Engagement     Yusuf Aiyedun     Rachael Obisesan     Amuda Aluko     Kwara 2015     Lanwa     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Harafat E. Mukadam     Mohammed Haruna     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Sarah Alade     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Ilota     Riskat Opakunle     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Kunle Akogun     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Galadima     Isaac Gbenle     Unilorin     Kazeem Oladepo     Idris Garba     Ajia-Bako     Christopher Ayeni     Ghali Alaaya     Jamiu Oyawoye     Jare Olatundun     Coronavirus     Shururat Olatinwo     Abubakar Aliagan     Fatimat Saliu     Danhawa     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Ahmad Lawan     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Isiaka Abdulrazak     JMK Construction Company Limited     Yomi Adeboye     Salihu Yahaya     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Kwara University Of Education     KWSUED     Wahab Egbewole     Saad Omo\'ya     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Ojuekun     VADA     Kwara Liberation Group     Dumagi     Saidu Kawu     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Ijagbo     Garba Idris Ajia     Funmilayo Mohammed     Bilikis Oladimeji     Emir Of Lafiagi     Toyin Falola     Olofa Of Offa     Egbejila     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Aso Ofi     Assayomo     Shuaib Olarongbe     Aremu Odolaye     MMWG     Kwara United     Salihu S. Yaru     Rotimi Samuel Olujide