Three days 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 Sports Vanguard 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”.
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“I have never experienced this in my years in sports. Money meant for the Games was held tightly by ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal. We had to buy kits on our own while some athletes competed in their personal kits.”
Solomon Dalung In Rio
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.
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Posted: at 19-08-2016 07:18 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
This government should please cover their faces with shame. Who is this man Dalung? What does he know about sports? It's high time Nigeria government give Sports minister to people who knows and has competed for Nigeria this Post and not going to one bush to bring out a clueless idiot to do it. Shame to this clueless, retarded government.
Posted: at 19-08-2016 07:37 AM (7 years ago) | Newbie
As long as we continue to have illiterate northerners at d helm of affairs,these will continue to happen,people that don't care about development or abt civilisation. Very backward set of people
Posted: at 19-08-2016 08:50 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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