Akani told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the athlete’s selection showed in many ways that the reason behind the club establishment was gradually being fulfilled.
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Oreweme told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja that with the level of preparations by Team Nigeria, she was sure that the team would make Nigeria proud.
It means the country is guaranteed a place in the finals of the two categories of the tournament it has emerged as overall winners since 2012.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, who facilitated the payment, said it was necessary to give the athletes their dues to encourage better performance
While Okagbare led the female team to a comfortable win in a time of 43.92secs, the men team were stretched by the Botswana quartet who came to Ozoro with the aim of getting a qualifying time for the World Championships in London
Nigeria clinched the first position with 19 gold, 16 silver and 11 bronze medals, while Ghana finished second with 10 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze.
However, there was a big blow for the team, which topped the overall medals table at the Zonal Championship held in January in Lome, Togo, with star player, Oyinlomo Quadri, forced out of the week-long tournament due to injury sustained in a tournament in Morocco on Thursday
The kit is arriving less than 48 hours to the closing ceremony of the Games
Ohaa charged them to shun all acts capable of bringing the nation to disrepute, including the use of performance enhancing drugs and flouting of camp rules
Each team from the 206 countries is welcomed to the Village in a special ceremony led by the village chieftains as well as athletes and officials of the countries
The resolution followed an unanimous adoption of a motion under Matters-of-Urgent Public Importance raised by Rep. Danburam Nuhu (APC-Kano).
Presenting the motion, Nuhu decried the non-provision of funds to Team Nigeria to begin preparations ahead of the games scheduled to kick-off in August 5
The three-time Central Bank of Nigeria Tennis champion will feature in the doubles alongside Babalola, himself a five-time winner of the CBN Open, regarded as the biggest domestic tennis tournament in Nigeria
According to him: “We have no plan to travel to Rio with condoms because it is the responsibility of the organisers not the NOC to supply them to everybody in Rio during the Games.
According to qualification format, the May 2016 Olympic Team Ranking list is taken into consideration for the team selections at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Sixth-seeded Gabriel, who defeated Cameroun’s Paul Wamba 6-2, 6-3 in his first match in the boys 14&under battled hard to beat Boussairy 7-6, 6-4 while Quadri made light work of Andriamadison 6-2, 6-2 in the girls 14&under
Yakmut, who was at the Makelekele Gymnasium to watch the Nigerian women beat their Gabonese counterparts in basketball, told the News Agency of Nigeria that Nigeria’s current standing was expected
A statement issued from Congo on Friday by Steven Nelson, Deputy Director of Press of the National Sports Commission, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, said Nigeria now has 52 medals
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Games is scheduled to hold between September 4 and 19 in Brazzaville, Congo
Yakmut recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had warned that the country’s participation in the Games must be as transparent as possible to avoid a situation where athletes were shortchanged
According to the federations’ boss, Adeyinka Samuel, the Nigerian team will compete for honours in the sport with eight male and three female