Former Olympic Silver Medalist Sunday Bada Is Dead

Nigeria’s former Olympic sliver medallist and Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr Sunday Bada is dead.

Kwara-born Mr Bada who was born on 22 June 1969, slumped and died at the National Stadium in Lagos on Monday evening.

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TRAGEDY: Nigeria Olympic silver medalist Sunday Bada slumped and died last night in Lagos

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may his soul RIP

May his gentle soul RIP.

RIP Sunday Bada

He was a truly great Nigerian Athlete. I think I met him once.

slumped and died - people should go for annual medical check ups.

Whao, too bad. RIP bros

Yet another death at the National Stadium.
RIP

These are the type of people that should be given award, people that brought honour to there fathers Land.
R.I.P

So very sad indeed, may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

This is sad. Nigerians never take care of their health. Many people are just mobile corpse. Nigerians think hospital is for the rich. May be he is suffering from high blood pressure or high collesterol. These are silent killers. Its so sad how people just die carelessly. Its painful. May his soul Rest in Peace

This news is so sad. I dont think he's even 50 yet. R.I.P. Nigeria Athletics will miss you

True Patriots!!

R.I.P Hommes!!

[/color][color=#990000]RIP SUNDAY BADA

otokx:

slumped and died - people should go for annual medical check ups.

easier said than done.here is the money to do the test wen man pikin never get money to buy food chop,my broda abeg leave matter.

brainpulse:

These are the type of people that should be given award, people that brought honour to there fathers Land.
R.I.P

pls tell them

kizito96:

This is sad. Nigerians never take care of their health. Many people are just mobile corpse. Nigerians think hospital is for the rich. May be he is suffering from high blood pressure or high collesterol. These are silent killers. Its so sad how people just die carelessly. Its painful. May his soul Rest in Peace

how many times you done do medical check up this year?no be only HIV/AIDS TEST YOU DEY ALWAYS DO

I admired his sprinting back in the days when he was active. He should be immortalised as one of those that made Nigeria proud in athletics.

I wish people will just shut up. Because he slumped and died, people blaming him for not being health conscious. You guys don't even know what killed him, but you're quick to judge.

Life is short. RIP

Basics007:

This news is so sad. I dont think he's even 50 yet. R.I.P. Nigeria Athletics will miss you

No, the report said he was born in 1969. So, he's just 42

IYA NGBALI:

easier said than done.where is the money to do the test wen man pikin never get money to buy food chop,my broda abeg leave matter.

True! Poverty breeds sickness, diseases and Death in Africa.

RIP,its just sad.

Wow!

A world class athlete dying at the age of 42?  

That is shocking.

One of the guys I used to cheer.

RIP!

RIP Sunday

You served your country well.

It's disheartening to see or hear of iconic nigerians dieing of avoidable causes. The guy slumped and died at the National stadium of places,am pretty sure he would have survived had there been an up to date medical facilities in place!

At any rate,May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace

RIP Bada


hmmm!!! "slumped and died" - quite wierd for an athlete especially distance runners to die of heart attacks, except ofcourse he was subjecting himself to his former workout routine forgetiing that old age had caught up with him.

r.i.p

may god comfort his family. he's indeed a patrotic nigerian.

He was very good at 200m, 400m and long jump events, winning many laurels for Nigeria.
R.I.P, a true patriot

Oh dear. Not Sunday Bada. The guy is almost legendary as far as Nigerian Athletics goes. Such a respectable and dignified athlete/policeman. These incessant deaths just keep diminishing me (apologies to John Donne). . .constant reminder of how inconsequential, vain, and transcient everything is!

May ASP Sunday Bada rest in perfect peace. He was (smh) a Nigerian Original.

rip

rip

Sunday was a good man, we were actually brought up in the same neighborhood though he is almost 20yrs older (that's considering his real age o), i attended same school and trained in the same grass root football team with his siblings.
I always believed that the measure of a life well-lived is not in how much money one has or what possessions they have accumulated, but rather through the lives they touched and the sorrow they leave behind.
Sunday was a source of inspiration to young-stars in the neighborhood, among those he inspired is Chinedu Oriala (who has been representing Nig. since Sydney 2000 Olympics).
I'd like to use this opportunity to join so many others who knew Sunday Bada, in offering my deepest sympathy on his passing. So to Segun and Bayo, if any if you is reading this, pls accept my condolence, for your brother have worked against all odds and have written his name in gold…

The man was an inspiration to many young aspirin athletes,
Rest in peace Man!
May The Lord console his family.