Governor Transforms Grazing Field To Modern Sports Stadium

Located in the heart of the city, a little over six months ago, this glittering stadium in the photographs was a piece of abandoned land where daring Fulani herders grazed their cattle.

But work has reached advanced stages on the stadium which was designed as a compact sporting facility with a covered stand, swanky dressing rooms, an electronic scoreboard, Fifa-standard pitch and Olympic-standard tartan tracks for sprinters.

Residents of Awka, anambra state in Nigeria’s south-east will have access to modern sporting and recreational facilities that will boost their hopes for an improved lifestyle and reduce the pressure on Alex Ekwueme Square which was not conceived as a facility for sports but has been converted to one by expediency.