| Bids for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
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2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
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| City | Abuja, Nigeria |
| NOC | Nigeria Olympic Committee |
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Abuja 2018 is a bid by the Nigerian city of Abuja to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
It was announced on November 29, 2011 by Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide who is the FCT Minister of State that Abuja would bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Africa is yet to organize an Olympic Game. If the bid is successful the city could bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Upon the launch of the bid it was revealed that hosting the Youth Olympics would be at a minimal cost or perhaps at no cost to government at all.[1] About a month later it was revealed that it would cost $120 Million to develop the needed venues for the games. [2] Abuja has never made an Olympic bid before. Abuja bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games but lost to Glasgow. In the December 23, 2011 addition of the Nigerian newspaper Leadership an article appears with the picture of a newly composed bid committee. [3]
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