17th June, 2014
The National Sports Commission (NSC) said on Tuesday that it would partner some universities to establish the National Anti-doping Centre.
The Director-General of the commission, Gbenga Elegbeleye, told newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday that Nigeria had experts in the campaign against doping, but lacked the edifice to work.
“We ought to be the pilot ground for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) syntax in the West Africa region, but we don’t have the capacity, we only have the equipment.
“What I feel we can do now is to have a research centre like in a university to be the centre and hub for this thing.
“We don’t want it to be at the National Stadium because it is supposed to be a daily thing that will be managed by experts.
“Although we have the experts here, we don’t have the edifice that they can work with.
“So, if we try to partner universities by giving them our equipment, then we will use that as the anti-doping centre and that is what we want to do now,’’ he said.
The DG added that the initiative was because the commission saw the need for the centre, but had no capacity to have it.