Abuja bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Abuja 2018 was a proposed bid by the Nigerian city of Abuja to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. The International Olympic Committee will select candidate cities in January 2013. The host city will be elected in June 2013 by the IOC in Lausanne.
History
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. It was stated that 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. About a month later it was revealed that it would cost $120 Million to develop the needed venues for the games. 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.
On February 29, 2012 it was announced that the bid would not be submitted to the IOC due to a lack of government suport.

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