Been watching the commonwealth games and I can’t just understand why Nigeria should be poorly represented , Kenya and Ghana are represented in almost all the whole sports going on but I have seen Nigeria just once in boxing, table tennis and weightlifting and in all we are doing well in the few appearances winning gold before other African counterparts largely represented, I think the sports sector needs much better work and this is obviously a sign of the vast failure of this government if am to say .
Please I think be it tinubu, peter obi or atiku should be asked questions in there interest in sports when elected

Very important observation. It's a sign that our sports is dying because of visionless and mission less leadership that is only reactionary and feeds on the resilience of the Nigerian youth. Where is Hockey, Handball, Lawn tennis, Volleyball, today? These events where quite popular in primary and secondary schools 25-30 years ago but are largely unknown at same level today. The society has a huge chunk of the blame for this malaise. Parents pay sports fees for their children in the schools but are deadly indifferent to whether there are facilities and equipment for sports in the schools. School becomes unexciting and with the loss of lifetime opportunities bequeathed on these neglected talents, poverty and the rear of it drives many young people into criminal alternatives . Nigeria wastes Energy like no other.

flejnr2:
Been watching the commonwealth games and I can’t just understand why Nigeria should be poorly represented , Kenya and Ghana are represented in almost all the whole sports going on but I have seen Nigeria just once in boxing, table tennis and weightlifting and in all we are doing well in the few appearances winning gold before other African counterparts largely represented, I think the sports sector needs much better work and this is obviously a sign of the vast failure of this government if am to say .
Please I think be it tinubu, peter obi or atiku should be asked questions in there interest in sports when elected

As at yesterday we were joint 7th on medal table and 1st in Africa with 2gold 1bronze, SA 8th with 2gold. Our men table tennis in quater finals, I think we went for quality over quantity.

We should be doing better than this though, considering we're more than 200M in the country.

saintokwuluora:
Very important observation. It's a sign that our sports is dying because of visionless and mission less leadership that is only reactionary and feeds on the resilience of the Nigerian youth. Where is Hockey, Handball, Lawn tennis, Volleyball, today? These events where quite popular in primary and secondary schools 25-30 years ago but are largely unknown at same level today. The society has a huge chunk of the blame for this malaise. Parents pay sports fees for their children in the schools but are deadly indifferent to whether there are facilities and equipment for sports in the schools. School becomes unexciting and with the loss of lifetime opportunities bequeathed on these neglected talents, poverty and the rear of it drives many young people into criminal alternatives . Nigeria wastes Energy like no other.

I think the poor treatment and promotion of these sports sector by the government makes the youths lose interest in them and focus on the easily attainable ones which they could self develop to an extent and get sponsors easily like football , basketball and boxing , I even see the youths now plying UFC

hatakekakashi:

As at yesterday we were joint 7th on medal table and 1st in Africa with 2gold 1bronze, SA 8th with 2gold. Our men table tennis in quater finals, I think we went for quality over quantity.

We should be doing better than this though, considering we're more than 200M in the country.

Not quality over quantity, but the ones the athletes can sponsor themselves to an extent

we all concentrate on football

flejnr2:

Not quality over quantity, but the ones the athletes can sponsor themselves to an extent

Yeah, some of the athletes trained by themselves outside of Nigeria. That's were the sport ministry needs to improve on.

In the past it has been so nothing came out of it. Just like in past Olypmics, Nigeria were almost represented in all sports events, but nothing like to show for it (at the end they likely come home with nothing). It's better to have fewer representation and have them better prepared unlike when they're more. The important thing is medal's and not the size of athletes.

Dear Flejnr2
Really?
does Nigeria look like a country to you?

I mean do you think she as a country deserve any good & pleasant thing? After beholding all these illogical/immoral/irrational things happening?

For gawd sake how can a so called leader loot our treasury of billions and straightaway goes on buying spree of properties in the developed countries of the world without batting an eyelid!? He is caught and there is no serious action to hold him accountable for the great crime.

These leaders don't have any love for this country, they don't just care.

Considering the vast majority of our athletes were concentrated in a handful of sports, we surpassed all expectations and performed really well. We can even achieve much more if we just did the bare minimum and built the necessary infrastructure to support all sports.