The trio of Olajide Omotayo, Bode Abiodun, and Segun Toriola, earned Silver for Nigeria after they lost in the finals 0-3 to India’s Sharath Achanta, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai.
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Dalung said: “I am here to make clarifications on certain developments that will portray us in bad light, disturb our unity of purpose and has a possibility of distracting our attention from success.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ogunlewe qualified for the final despite finishing third in his semi-final, while Adegoke won his semi-final and qualified automatically.
At a reception held for the Nigerian contingent, Gowon, who is also the Head of the Nigerian delegation to Australia, said it is a privilege to meet a large gathering of Nigerians from all over Australia in Queensland.
The Nigerians had lost their first preliminary qualification game against the Tall Blacks of New Zealand on Friday and have now all but crashed out of the tournament.
He said: “The Games have just started and our team has prepared very well. Although the early start has not been quite impressive as we expected, that does not suggest that that’s what we are expecting. We are quite hopeful that we will surpass our records in this Games. We should not be discouraged by the poor start. The team is in high spirit and the officials are dutifully working round the clock. Our aim is to make the country proud.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Favour Agboro and Monica Uweh had failed to make a podium finish in the men and women weightlifting events on Thursday.
D’Tigers, who are in Pool A alongside hosts Australia, New Zealand and Canada, were dominated throughout the proceedings by the Tall Blacks, as the New Zealand basketball team are referred to.
Olajide Omotayo defeated Chee Feng from Malaysia in three straight sets, recording 13-11, 15-13, 11-7 in his second match of the day.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Team Nigeria defeated Malaysia and Belize in their opening two ties on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kumar dominated in all the three rounds to secure a 5-0 unanimous decision against the 19-year-old Nigerian in the round of 32 encounter.
Australia won the hosting right over Sri Lanka’s Hambantota in 2011 at a meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation in the Caribbean Island of St Kitts.
The team which is dominated by home-based players began training on Jan. 5, ahead of the competition which be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia between April 4 and April 15, 2018.
The Technical Director of AFN, Sunday Adeleye, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja as the two-day All-Comers Athletics Championship ended on Saturday.
“There isn’t much going on next year either, so I would definitely want to go to the Commonwealth Games,” he said.