i-Fitness opens Nigeria’s largest fitness centre in Port Harcourt

Fitness

• Plans N1.2 billion investment on three facilities Renowned exercise and training hub, i-Fitness Gym, has opened a state-of-the -art centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The imposing fitness hub is located off Ordinance Road, opposite former corporate office of Greater Port Harcourt Development Agency at the Trans Amadi Industrial area of the Garden City.

The official unveiling on Saturday attracted dignitaries and people who are in the business of keeping fit across the state.

Speaking on the outfit, founder and Chief Executive Officer/MD, Foluso Ogunwale, a former banker, described it as the “fastest growing fitness gym in West Africa.”

Ogunwale said the new fitness centre is now Nigeria’s largest, sitting on one acre of land, with an exercise space (indoor and outdoor) of over 2,000 square metres.

He said: “The facility is built to ensure we provide the people of Port Harcourt an enabling environment to adopt the culture of fitness. Also a place where people can build friendships, feel a sense of belonging. Joining the i-Fitness network also opens the people of Port Harcourt up to many more i-Fitness branches outside of the state.

“With 26 branches across Nigeria by December 2023, fitness has become truly enjoyable to the people of Rivers State.”

He disclosed that the company was founded in 2015 in Lagos, where it currently has 18 branches.

The Port Harcourt centre, according to him, is the 19th branch, with the 20th due for launch in a fortnight.

Ogunwale said: “I-Fitness is built to promote culture of healthy living. The idea of I-Fitness is to make fitness common; to make it affordable and to make it closer to work and closer to home so that people are able to imbibe that culture.”

He disclosed that two more