THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU SHOULD REPRESENT NIGERIA AT THE OLYMPICS

Nigeria has the highest percentage of athletes declared ineligible to compete at the #Tokyo2020  Olympics due to failure to comply with OCT requirements: 

43%. 

Half of the entire contingent. 

This shows the administrative disability of the Nigerian contingent . 

Mr Sunday Dare , the current Minister of Sports is a National disgrace . A “non-peg”  in a round hole ! 

I took a look at the website of the Nigeria Olympic committee . It hasn’t been updated since 2016. 

What this means is that since Rio 2016 , there hasn’t been any planning or administration for the Nigerian Olympic team . Nothing ! 

Mr Habu Ahmed Gumel , the President of the NOC who is described as a Retired Chartered Engineer is a complete embarrassment. 

Ibrahim Gusau has conveniently neglected to tell Nigerians that he and Sunday Adeleye (Athletics Federation of Nigeria ) signed a non-disclosure agreement with Puma, with the details unknown to the ministry and board members of the AFN and pocketed $2.7M . 

Yes you read that right . The sum of Two million Seven hundred thousand Dollars . 

They collected $2.7M from Puma for Team Nigeria's kits at the Olympics . 

These unfortunate people  collected money and the athletes are not wearing Puma . Puma will sue the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and not them to get their money back.

It has never been this bad . 

My advice to future Nigerian Olympians . Nigeria has failed you . It is time to come together and form the Naija Oympic Commitee . 

This is using a legal loophole within the International Olympic committee framework where athletes can compete without representing a Nation . 

Sitting behind the United States of America  (with 59 medals as of last night) and China (51) in the total Olympic medal count is the athletic powerhouse ROC.

If you’ve never heard of ROC before, it doesn’t mean you’re bad at geography—it’s not a country. 

It stands for the Russian Olympic Committee, a loophole that allows more than 330 Russian athletes to compete in the Olympics without representing the country itself.

That is what we will do . 

We will call it NOC ( Naija Olympic Commitee) 

The best of Nigeria will go to the Olympics on their own , sign contracts on their own without being led by Clowns like Sunday Dare and Habu Gumel who are more focused on stealing government funds allocated to the Olympics .

Olayinka Oluwakuse

COVID-19: Diplomats in US begin raising funds for Russians who are unable to return home

Govt approves procedure of help to Russians stranded abroad

Russian diplomats in the United States have begun raising funds for citizens of the Russian Federation who have been unable to return to their home country, the Russian Embassy in the US reported.

"Our employees have begun raising funds in the diplomatic mission to support citizens in a difficult situation in the United States. The funds will be used to pay for hotel accommodation and purchase basic necessities for the most needy compatriots," the embassy said in a Twitter post.

About 250 Russians were expected to return from New York to Moscow on April 3. According to Russia’s coronavirus crisis center, international flights used to evacuate Russian citizens from other countries were suspended on April 4.

Meanwhile, Russia’s government has approved the procedure of assistance to the compatriots who cannot return back to the country at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the resolution posted on the government site on Saturday. Tass reported

"The attached regulations on social support (assistance) to the Russian citizens staying on the territory of a foreign country and unable to return to the Russian Federation amidst the spread of the novel coronavirus shall be approved," the document says.

The resolution says that the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media was assigned to create and control an online application form on the portal of public services for people in need and to daily inform the Foreign and Interior Ministries that are to verify the information and take decisions about the assistance. The Foreign Ministry is instructed to forward the lists of the Russian citizens who have received aid to the Federal Tax Service and to the Federal Security Service.

The resolution was said to be effective immediately.

As of Saturday April 4th, a total of 4,731 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 333 patients having recovered from the virus. Moscow handles the bulk of the cases (3,357). The country’s latest data indicates 43 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation.

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