Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has admitted he regrets scrapping the National Sports Commission (NSC).
He stated that the NSC has a role to play, in the new plans for sports in Nigeria.
Dalung was speaking on an NTA Network programme, Tuesday Live.
He said: “The NSC was scrapped when I was appointed minister of Youth and Sports. The merging of the two ministries to become one led to the establishment of a technical committee to merge the ministries. What came out of the report of the committee was just a briefing.
“The committee had already decided to merge the ministry independent of the minister but the popular opinion was that the minister scrapped the NSC.”
Dalung also called for restructuring down to the grassroots, if the ministry must get it right moving forward.
“We have to restructure our sports architecture where government will concentrate on investing grants on talents or grassroots sports development while the elite sports will be left for the federations and professionals,” he added.
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