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| OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Korrection(m): 8:15am On Aug 13, 2012 |
LAGOS—The story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics is “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 billion down the drain.” And now a top Nigerian sports official who is a member of an international sports federation wants the federal government to compel the sports ministry to account for how they spent the N2.3 billion government released for the Olympic Games which ended in London yesterday. He would not have his name on print. He said the ministry should disclose how much they released to each sports association that presented a team to the Olympic Games. Athletics, Weightlifting, Taekwondo(athletes) Canoeing (one athlete), Wrestling, Basketball, Table Tennis and Boxing associations presented teams at the games. All the athletes were 51. The number of officials was still unknown as there were many who were not accredited and, consequently, were not useful to the athletes. They stayed in their hotels to watch the games on television. This irked the Nigerian official and he described the action of the ministry as “wasteful.” He said it was necessary for the ministry to disclose the allocations to each association because of what he called “the wrong decisions” that partly affected Nigeria’s preparation to the games. Flags of various nations, including Norway (C) and Nigeria (2nd-R), are displayed during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 12, 2012 in London. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games. AFP PHOTO The official said the following: “Taekwondo that presented two athletes was given over N65m to prepare while Athletics that had over 100 athletes but which they pruned to 28 for the Olympics was given N131m. Basketball which had to travel to Venezuela for their qualifying tournament was given N75m for all their preparation including the tournament in Venezuela. The rest of the sports did not get more than N500,000. And yet N2.3 billion was released for the Olympic games. But the money came in installments and it came so late that nothing much could be done with the last installment. This is not the way to prepare for the Olympic Games. The people who disbursed the money took wrong decisions and now the athletes are saying that they did not prepare well. The ministry is to blame.” A coach in one of the teams admitted that Nigeria lacked world class athletes and that even if more billions of money were approved the money would have still gone down the drain as “you cannot perform magic over night in sports, you build over a period of time.” The last time Nigeria left the Olympic Games without a medal was 24 years ago in the Seoul Olympic Games of 1988. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/olympics-no-gold-no-silver-no-bronze-n2-3-bn-down-the-drain/ |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Demdem(m): 8:20am On Aug 13, 2012 |
FRESH AIR!!!!!!  |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Super1759: 8:21am On Aug 13, 2012 |
2.3 what!! Omg!! This is heart aching |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Immortal1(m): 8:25am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Please, moderators, take dis 2 front page. SMH 4 my country! Wat does it really take 2b sincere & disciplined? Dis is one country were such virtues re luxuries!! |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Korrection(m): 8:31am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Lol GEJ released the money...our fellow countrymen squandered it.....tell me one thing they did with the cash...a little story...yesterday i went to a primary school field to play football..just to enjoy the game since im a golfer...i played with 3 secondary school boys..my God these guys are something else...come and see what i call football control..they way the glide in the air and all...after the play i told them im going to sponsor them in football..already shopping for thier football kits...children of just 16 to 19...good to prepare them now than later Demdem: FRESH AIR!!!!!! |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Dainfamous: 8:33am On Aug 13, 2012 |
the country moral is down because of bombing and killings in nigeria... |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Korrection(m): 8:34am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Thats a little truth bro Da infamous: the country moral is down because of bombing and killings in nigeria... |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Pataki: 8:37am On Aug 13, 2012 |
I cry when I see what my country has become. I am utterly ashamed. Of course, Retardeen's government is all about chop the money. When will our lost glory ever be restored? |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Korrection(m): 8:43am On Aug 13, 2012 |
on point sir...a very calm comment from you Pataki: I cry when I see what my country has become. I am utterly ashamed. Of course, Retardeen's government is all about chop the money. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Dainfamous: 8:44am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Korrection: Thats a little truth brothey say charity begins at home... |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by JameyMaxwell(m): 9:01am On Aug 13, 2012 |
2.3 bn for olympics and nuttin to show for it. Yet people are dying of hunger everday, no light,Boko Haram issue etc. Nigeria has its priority misplaced. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by CyberG: 9:17am On Aug 13, 2012 |
So perhaps only about 300 M was spent of the 2.3 B given the numbers quoted by the official?? Why not when they know there will be no consequences for corruption while the retardinho president is eating 1 M cassava bread by himself and budgeting about almost 1 Tr for insecurity which has not even improved till date. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by jamace(m): 9:17am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Not shocking at all. Looting is a celebrity in Nigeria. Morality and patroitism gone down the drain. Adieu Nigeria!  1 Like |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Nobody: 9:21am On Aug 13, 2012 |
my fellow nigerians we are sincerly sorry 4 d poor performance in d olympics, its an eye opener and we have discoverd d lapses, we ar setting up a commitee to look into the issue at hand, we ar goin bak 2 d drawin boards so 4 now calm down and we promise nt to fail u in 2016 olympics. 1 Like |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Dhelake: 9:26am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Nt shocking .... Abt 8bn was released 4 beijing ,.... Xo dis is kinda small .... Back to d topic .... Only 300M was spent out of d whole 2.3bn ... Wat abt the remaining 2bn .... I knw by now, they would av shared it accordinly among one anoda ..... Smh 4 dis tin called Nigeria |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by ektbear: 9:31am On Aug 13, 2012 |
A country of 170+ million black people lacks world-class athletes  Wtf? Lacking the athletes is not the issue. Finding them and nurturing them is. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by RichDad1(m): 9:36am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Please GEJ when you are setting up the Committee to review the failure I am very much Interested and Available because i watched all the games and i can give you first class analysis on how the athletes performed.  |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by KiKatanga: 9:37am On Aug 13, 2012 |
ekt_bear: ^^^^This. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by miteolu(m): 9:49am On Aug 13, 2012 |
One Nls member said " IT IS ONLYPICS" |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by queensmith: 9:50am On Aug 13, 2012 |
by the time the 2.3bn reached the athletes it probably became 230naira  |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by JameyMaxwell(m): 9:53am On Aug 13, 2012 |
Omo na to go join Olympics committe sure pass! |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Acidosis(m): 1:20pm On Aug 13, 2012 |
good for them. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by Afam4eva(m): 1:27pm On Aug 13, 2012 |
Yet, some coogar guy was telling me that olympics is about participation. Do you know how many kilometeres of road that money could have constructed? It has gone down the drain just like some futile projects that have been embarked upon in the past. |
| Re: OLYMPICS: “no Gold, No Silver, No Bronze, N2.3 Bn Down The Drain” by plendil: 4:44pm On Aug 13, 2012 |
the scale of the present corruption is becoming too bad |
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