{"id":441555,"date":"2011-06-15T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/15\/nigeria-2011-garden-city-games-president-jonathan-36-govs-to-flag-off-festival\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:49:00","slug":"nigeria-2011-garden-city-games-president-jonathan-36-govs-to-flag-off-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/15\/nigeria-2011-garden-city-games-president-jonathan-36-govs-to-flag-off-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2011 Garden City Games &#8211; President Jonathan, 36 Govs to Flag Off Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"35.664921466\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/thisday180.jpg\" alt=\"This Day (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit This Day (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>15 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is expected to lead all the 36 state governors to the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival tagged the Garden City Games beginning in Port Harcourt from June 28.<\/p>\n<p>The event already been described to be a once in a life-time experience is already causing excitement in Port Harcourt even as Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi hopes to use the Festival to redefine tourism in the state and also make a statement in infrastructural development.<\/p>\n<p>Information Commissioner, Ibim Semenitari, said Gov. Amaechi has in his development strides observed that major sporting events across the world were always used to bring fresh developments and has decided to use the Garden City Games as a Nigerian model.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is why we are building new roads, bridges, constructing stadia with the latest facilities you can find anywhere in the world and generally ensuring that the huge investment we have thrown into the games is seen and felt by the Nigerian people who will be visiting and the good people of Rivers State,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Lagos-based writer further added that the people of the state have been mobilised to showcase the true potentials of the state as a tourism destination in Nigeria, instead of the negative postulation of kidnapping and youth restiveness that has recently been associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>She assured athletes and officials that major roads that were being constructed will be completed on time for their arrival, noting that traffic jams will not be witnessed throughout the games in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also charge those who do not believe what I&#8217;m saying to visit the University of Port Harcourt Games Village, Liberation Stadium, Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium and the several roads we&#8217;re constructing to come and see them for themselves,&#8221; said the commissioner.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106150561.html\" title=\"Nigeria: 2011 Garden City Games - President Jonathan, 36 Govs to Flag Off Festival\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: 2011 Garden City Games &#8211; President Jonathan, 36 Govs to Flag Off Festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 June 2011 President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is expected to lead all the 36 state governors to the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival tagged the Garden City Games beginning in Port Harcourt from June 28. The event already been described to be a once in a life-time experience is already causing excitement in Port Harcourt even as Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi hopes to use the Festival to redefine tourism in the state and also make a statement in infrastructural development. Information Commissioner, Ibim Semenitari, said Gov. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: 2011 Garden City Games - President Jonathan, 36 Govs to Flag Off Festival - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/15\/nigeria-2011-garden-city-games-president-jonathan-36-govs-to-flag-off-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: 2011 Garden City Games - President Jonathan, 36 Govs to Flag Off Festival - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"15 June 2011 President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is expected to lead all the 36 state governors to the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival tagged the Garden City Games beginning in Port Harcourt from June 28. 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