The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) had excluded her name from the upcoming competition as a result of the doping investigation she was undergoing.
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Others on the list are Ruth Usoro, the reigning NCAA indoor champion in the triple jump and the 4x400m quartet of Sikiru Adeyemi, Ifeanyi Ojeli, Nathaniel Samson and Timonthy Emeoghene.
Onikeku is a former Nigeria international, while Osheku ranks as one of the most knowledgeable coaches in road running.
He spoke against the backdrop of a newspaper publication that he has been nominated to an athletics committee.
Ebewele, former national Decathlon champion, popularly known as Jujuman, died in a hospital in Warri, Delta State.
The Okowa-led board, according to a statement signed by Prince Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, its Secretary General, is recognised by World Athletics, Confederation of African Athletics, the Nigeria Olympic Committee and the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.
In a statement signed by Prince Adeniyi Adisa Beyioku, its Secretary General, the AFN says it does not know anything about the contract outside what has been written in the media and, from the media reports had even made attempt to clarify from PUMA, pointing out breaches of the AFN constitution by Messrs Gusau and Adeleye who PUMA confirmed negotiated the deal.
Tonobock Okowa, President of the federation made the announcement Sunday in Tokyo on the sidelines of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.
This is according to Adeniyi Beyioku, Secretary General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria on Thursday.
Okowa made the announcement on Thursday in Tokyo after the federation took responsibility for the disqualification of 10 Nigerians
This followed a report to the DSS after widespread false information fabricated by the sports ministry.
Among other things, the one-day athletics meet, billed for the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, affords Team Nigeria another chance to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics Relay events having failed in its last bid at the national trials held at Yaba College of Technology Sporting Complex
The consignment which includes Track suits, vests, shoes back packs, wheel bags, face masks and others items whose open market price runs into millions of naira was delivered on Sunday,13th, July.
Gusau, who is also vying for a second term in office as President, said in the spirit of unity and oneness, interests of all contestants will be protected before and during the election.
The details were contained in the timetable sent to World Athletics by the Secretary General of the AFN, Prince Adisa Adeniyi Beyioku.
The competition, the first in the calendar of events for the year, is designed to help athletes gauge their level of preparedness for the National Sports Festival, which begins next month on Valentine’s day in Benin City, Edo State.
Gusau made the promise in a statement signed by AFN’s Director General, Pepple Young, in Lagos on Friday.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has hailed Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare’s intervention regarding payment of allowances to athletes that represented Nigeria in international and continental competitions in the last three years. Athletes and officials have either been short paid, underpaid or not paid at all by the suspended President of the AFN.
Shehu-Gusau said this on Sunday in a news conference to address the situation of things happening in the federation