Ex Rep Member Ned Nwoko set to Open Nigeria's first Sports University...

Prince Ned Nwoko, former member of the House of Representatives is a man of high taste. Not s few who know his Abuja hone would doubt what he has put together back home in Idumuje Ugboko in Delta State. The impressive home, which is named Mount Lilly exists inside a spiralling orchard is an architectural masterpiece. It is a fusion of Arabian and African architecture, with cultures of Morocco, Syria, Ghana Isreal and Nigeria fused into one in the buildings as well as the furnishing and finishing.
The building as well as the recreational facilities it provides has been the thing attracting visitors especially tourists from outside of the country to Idumuje. Nearly every big name in the Nigerian entertainment industry has visited the place either to shoot a film or to relax and enjoy the breathtaking scenery. But of recent, Prince Ned Nwoko decided to add a gulf course which would further enhance the patronage of the community by Nigerians and non Nigerians alike.
The work on the golf course is still on but we however gathered that he has decided to make it a full-fledged sports university.
Before the idea of a sports university came in, Mount Lilly could boast of an Olympic size swimming pool, and facilities for billiard, table tennis lawn tennis, football pitch, among others.
The sprawling palatial mansion also had other asides such as a mini zoological garden, fish ponds breeding over fifty thousand fish and poultry with as much fowls. This is apart from the orchard with various types of fruits which practically surrounds the mansion.
The idea of a Sports University according to sources close to Prince Nwoko came into existence as a result of the need to build on the facilities that are already on ground in the state as well as the community.
With the state having contributed so much to the development of sports in the country it was only natural that an indigene would embark on such a project more so since there is nothing like that exists in the country. This is also because the community has the best topography for such an institution in the state with mountains and rivers.
We also gathered that given the fact that the old Bendel state had the first known institution for the training of sportsmen and sportswomen in the country, Ned Nwoko believed that the state which was one of the two created from the old Bendel should be able to blaze the trail.
Already land has been acquired for the University while plans are being made to take off from four different temporary campuses pending the time its own structures would be ready.
Obviously, the community which is already on the tourism map of the country after the visit of the Director General of the NTDC Ms Mbanefo would continue to be a place that attracts visitors from all walks of life even as the golf course and the new University take off soon.