With just three days left to the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Team Nigeria took delivery of the much awaited kits after most of the athletes had concluded their events with some already back to their bases.
A top official of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria who disclosed this to a source on Thursday, said the kits which arrived Wednesday night would no longer serve any purpose because “most of the athletes have left after concluding their events”.
He added that “I have never experienced this in my years in sports. Money meant for the Games was held tightly by ministry officials.
We had to buy kits on our own while some athletes competed in their personal kits.” It would be recalled that Team Nigeria had to resort to their warm-up track suits for the match past of the Opening Ceremony as the sports ministry claimed the official attire which was showcased before President Muhammadu Buhari during the hand-over ceremony in Abuja failed to arrive on time for the ceremony.
Nigerians who were alarmed by the embarrassing scenario condemned the ministry for the untidy handling of the athletes’ kits but the sports minister, Solomon Dalung, in defence of the ministry, tweeted with a post that even the South African contingent appeared at the Opening Ceremony in their track suits. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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We have seen the results of all these in the number of medals won so far. It will go down in the history of Nigeria how and why athletes representing Nigeria are funding their outing themselves...Unfortunately, this is the first and last Olympic tournament Buhari administration will ever organize...We have seen the effects of "Change" so far. Well,as events are unfolding...
ReplyDeleteNow we are in the change he promised
ReplyDeleteSai Baba
ReplyDeleteIt's pdp faulty........lolz
ReplyDeleteNice reply Ade....it's the fault of the previous administration, they did not start designing the clothes when oil price was high.
DeletePDP has embezzled the fund needed to send the kits.... nonsense!
ReplyDeletePDP has connive do with the sender of the kits so as to blackmail the present government. These are the kind of nonsense that will fill up the media.
Nigeria my country is sick. Oh Lord have mercy.
Just when I thought I had seen the greatest level of fraud, the current minister of sports pushes it to another level. What baffles me is how he keeps deceiving the President and also talking like the victim in public when the entire sports ministry is in the know of all his corrupt practices.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is also PDP's fault.
Na Jonathan cause am. Shameless wicked people.
ReplyDeleteTHE SAME WITH THE CHANGE WE CLAIM TO HAVE VOTED FOR, BEFORE IT COMES WE ALL WOULD HAVE ALL FINISHED. NO PROBLEM, IT IS THE PDP FAULT.
ReplyDeleteThe ministry was never in support of the Nigeria Olympian in the first place so why should God honour them with medals. Anyway, after the Rio 2016 we would have realised that we reap what we sole.
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ReplyDeleteSHAME ON NIGERIA!!
THE NIGERIA TEAM WERE GIVEN ZERO MOTIVATION AND TRAVEL TICKETS TO RIO OLYMPICS
WERE BOUGHT AT THE LAST MINUTES.
OTHER COUNTRIES ARE GATHERING 100 MEDALS AT THE OLYMPICS, NIGERIA STILL AT NIL MEDAL...WAO!!!
IF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION WAS AN OLYMPIC SPORT, NIGERIA COULD HAVE WON A MEDAL ,I COULD BET ON THIS...
PLS SPORTS MINISTER , MEMBERS OF BOARD OF SPORTSSHOULD RESIGN HONORABLY...
BUHARI AND APC HAS FAILED TOTALLY IN ALL ENDEAVORS...INCLUDING AT THIS GLOBAL SPORTS STAGE.
WE ARE WAITING FOR GOV OSHOMHOLE TO DEFEND THIS GRAND FAILURE ???
THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THE NIGERIA PROJECT IS DEAD.
AGAIN..SHAME ON NIGERIA!!
PAUL ABANGANA
TEXAS, USA
p.bangana55@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteSHAME ON NIGERIA!!
THE NIGERIA TEAM WERE GIVEN ZERO MOTIVATION AND TRAVEL TICKETS TO RIO OLYMPICS
WERE BOUGHT AT THE LAST MINUTES.
OTHER COUNTRIES ARE GATHERING 100 MEDALS AT THE OLYMPICS, NIGERIA STILL AT NIL MEDAL...WAO!!!
IF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION WAS AN OLYMPIC SPORT, NIGERIA COULD HAVE WON A MEDAL ,I COULD BET ON THIS...
PLS SPORTS MINISTER , MEMBERS OF BOARD OF SPORTSSHOULD RESIGN HONORABLY...
BUHARI AND APC HAS FAILED TOTALLY IN ALL ENDEAVORS...INCLUDING AT THIS GLOBAL SPORTS STAGE.
WE ARE WAITING FOR GOV OSHOMHOLE TO DEFEND THIS GRAND FAILURE ???
THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THE NIGERIA PROJECT IS DEAD.
AGAIN..SHAME ON NIGERIA!!
PAUL ABANGANA
TEXAS, USA
p.bangana55@gmail.com
The minister should be sacked or is Buhari deaf and dumb to what is happening around him. Dalung is bad luck and a disaster and the fool is always on the defensive. This government is failing in all ramifications
ReplyDeleteTo me, some political office holders should be hanged without trial.
ReplyDeleteJona connived with avengers and boko haram by sending FFK to the airport to delay the arrival of the kit.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, what is the sports ministry's concern with Olympic kits. The sports ministry didn't send the under 23 team. Why are we bothering them with kits.
We are beginning to see ministers who don't even know why they were appointed. I bet, ministers like this will keep their portfolio till the end of this administration because we believe in parties and not in Nigeria
Buhari's anti-corruption war is a farce.
ReplyDeleteNawa o,GEJ again?when would his administration stop haunting us?this is anoda disaster by dis APC led administration.
ReplyDeleteboth the kit and the people that was supposed to use it are failures, the head of the country is too old , step down Buhari
ReplyDeleteBuhari must go!
ReplyDeleteLet him resign!!