NSF: Delta Constructs New Indoor Hall For Asaba 2022

To give Nigerian youths the best facilities to display their talents at the 21st National Sports Festival, Delta State has commenced the construction of new facilities, including a new indoor sports hall for the Games.
Asaba 2022 Games will hold from November 2 to 15, 2022, one week to the kick off of Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. A member of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Games, Chief Solomon Ogba, told newsmen, yesterday, that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had began the process of turning around the Stephen Keshi Stadium in readiness for the Sports Festival.
“The first step has been taken, we are constructing a world-standard multi purpose Indoor Sports Hall that can accommodate 19 indoor events, except boxing. We had an existing indoor sports hall, but the government is constructing a brand new one within the stadium complex,” Ogba stated.
According to Ogba, a former Sports Commissioner, who led Team Delta to win the sports festival on three occasions (Bauchi 2000, Abuja 2004 and Gateway 2006) under Governor James Ibori’s administration, two buildings, which were formally used as shooting range and gymnasium, were pulled down for the new indoor sports hall.
He added that the old indoor sports hall would be given a facelift to host some other events. On hostel facilities for the athletes, he said.
“We have two approach as far as hostel for the Games is concerned. We have school hostels that can accommodate 12,500 athletes, and we are looking at providing additional accommodation for the rest people because we are targeting 16,000 athletes.”