At the age of 36, Francis Obikwelu still runs for his adopted country, Portugal. This is coming eleven years after he made history by becoming the first individual athlete to win a medal for the Iberian nation at the Olympics, winning silver in the men’s 100m at the 2004 Athens Games.

We caught up with Obikwelu at the 2015 World Relays in Bahamas, where he talked about his aspirations to qualify to run at both the 2015 World Championships and the Rio Olympics next year! He also offered some word of advice to the Nigerian team:

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Who day pursue am?

Them wan kill am ni?

Probably he's using his real age unlike others using sport age that is different from their real age.

Probably he's using his real unlike others using sport age that is different from their real age.

Yeah he's still very fit even at 36 and this goes to show that he did not doctor his age ;
Unlike some people are already in their late 30's and will be claiming to be in their early 20's

there are more igbo youths outside of Nigeria than any other tribe in the whole of Africa.

they stole our liberty and denied us the right to self determination yet they wonder why we always migrate in search of greener pastures.

this is just one of many of them.

there are more in Britain,america and others.

where we like this before the pogrom and subsequent inhumanity on us. God is watching sha. our cut off mark is higher yet upon graduation, we get less employment opportunity. they turn back and ask why we are more interested in business than formal education.

in spite of all this , we are still dwarfing them in most fields including education.

check the number of Igbo profs on NUC records and compare it to others