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Aruna Quadri upsetting the world no 7 right now. He's 2-0 up. Unbelievable.

2 Nigerians in the quarter final so far:
1. U23 football
2. Rowing lady

Up next...Nigeria vs Sweden. Men's football. 11pm Nigerian time.

BascoVanVeli:
I think we have a shot at women's weightlifting

The best chance is a bronze. The top 2 in the world are far far ahead of Mariam. Something like a 30kg difference.

Quadri through to round 3. He will play a very tough Chinese who is ranked 7th in the world. The game is played around 2am tomorrow. Immediately after the dream team match.

Aruna Quadri taking on Wang. I expect him to win the match and go as far as quarter final.

Racheal Tonjor goes next in the 100m breaststroke swimming. I havent seen many Nigerian in Olympic swimming. Unique.

Toriola Out!

Aruna Quadri is the last Nigerian standing at table tennis singles.

Toriola currently losing to Koki Nawa of Japan. 2-1. Baba Sege can still come back.

SIRTee15:
what about that female wrestler.....
I heard she's number 3 in her category.....
I believe she's a medal hopeful, provided she gets a favourable draw......
okagbare can win medals in this tournament, if she chooses her events well.....
IMO, she should forget the 100m, her start is always poor; rather she should focus on the long jump n 200m, she's more competitive in the latter 2.

and of course, let's not forget our footballers. They are strong favourite.

Odunayo is a very fine wrestler, one of the best in the world. She sure is one of our best medal prospects. Okagbare is doubtful. She can sure make the final, but her best chance was the last olympics. She cannot do the long jump and 200m because of clash in schedule. I will say she should do the 100m and long jump.

Footballers...sigh! When they get to semi final, I can call them favourite. Until then, they are just OK.

Segun Toriola the legend has to fight hard. He is about to beat the Czech tough opponent in round 1 of the table tennis. Thats the last Nigerian for today.
He wins!
Good news to round up the day.

Edem Offiong gone. No more Nigerian female Table tennis interest.

Funke Oshonaike going going.....gone
1st Nigerian casualty.She's out of the Olympics.

Up next is Edem offiong.

superduperjay:
What supersport channel?? Cause I can't seem to find it

Im not sure about the channels. I follow the Rio official timetable and watch it on BBC.

Next Nigerian up is Funke Oshonaike at 6:30pm Nigerian time. Followed by Edem Offiong and Segun Toriola (the grandfather of table tennis).

So far so good. No Nigerian out yet. All table tennis players through to next round. We have our first quarter finalist as well.

Swedish Coach wants Nigeria expelled from Olympics for unsportsmanlike behavior....

Swedish coach says Nigeria had added advantage by coming late for the olympics. He said Nigeria were allowed to play without accreditation and that usually accreditation takes a lot of time. His words:

We have worked any amount of accreditation applications, document creation and other time-consuming. Things that have taken time from the players' preparations. And then Nigeria pops up just before its opening match and not at all four days before the first game, as the rules require, says Ericson Swedish Radio.

Source: http://www.svt.se/sport/os-i-rio/hakan-ericson-osportsligt-av-nigeria/
In swedish, but can be translated.

Fayose needs the number of FBI or CIA so they can help him arrest a sitting first lady.

Is it just me or is anyone else enjoying the cross fire between Shekau and al Barnawi? It gives me confidence that Nigerian intel is deep within BH ranks. I remember a time when Col. SK Usman gave a release about Shekau BGs killing some top members who wanted to abscond. The whole jigsaw is now taking shape.

Also, Shekau has been confirmed to be inside Sambisa still. His days are numbered

I predicted this will be the worst olympics for Nigeria in a long time. I still stand by that. We are sending 75 athletes, it seems like 75 also rans.

Corruption has eaten so deep into Nigeria that corrupt officials are unwilling to compromise even when there is no money to be stolen. They will rather embarass the nation than do what is right.

The government released money for olympics long enough. The money was substantially smaller than previous years. The money should be enough to have a good olympics, but will leave very little for the corrupt officials to eat from. Rather than apply the money straight to the olympics, the officials prefer to embezzle that money and leave Nigerian athletes stranded all over the world. If not for Regina George and Seye Ogunlewe who started embarassing the AFN, the athletes would have had to buy the ticket to Rio on their own!
This olympics will be the turning point, and I expect plenty to get sacked after the olympics.

Nigeria has no serious medal prospects out of the 75. I will not be following the olympics as I used to do. Thankfully the EPL is starting.

isaiah9:
The final roster of Nigeria olympic basketball team.
So sad no alfarouq aminu and ezile because of some issues

Insurance they said! Al farouq Aminu is by far the best Nigerian player. This is the worst news about our olympics. Worse than the relay team dq.

It was never a scam. Linda Ikeji has done plenty harm to Mayowa's cause. Even greater harm has been done to people who are likely to beg for funds because Linda has cast doubts into people's minds. Its a shame that a bloody kobo kobo blogger can harm such a good cause.

CSTR12:
Isreal has much more to give your country than all the arab and persian nations that your president likes to visit.
Isreal is the technological, military, agricultural and economic power of the middle-east. They are also responsible for the training of your DSS and the supply of their tavors rifle.
I hope buhari would not let his religious bias prevent him from working with isreal. He is that dumb.

Very vague claims. Israel remains a rogue nation built on the blood of innocent Palestinians. All this bla bla about tech, military and economic power is crap propaganda.

Netanyahu welcome to Nigeria though.

So who took her 'before' picture? Did the person envisage a miracle? Or was she dressed as a mad woman after the said deliverance?

These miracles are largely unproven.

A South African woman, Margaret Hlatshwayo, has revealed how the senior pastor of Enlightened Christian Gathering Church, ECG, in South Africa, Shepherd Bushiri, paid her to lie about miracles.

TheGoodJoe:
Usman Mohammed
Born/age:: Mar 2, 1994 (22)
Nationality: Nigeria
Place Of Birth: Kadunna
Position: Attacking Midfield
Current club: CF União Madeira

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/usman-mohammed/profil/spieler/409103

There is a mistake. That is what you get when a Journalist relies strictly on whatever pops up from a Google Wikipedia search.

Thanks jare. I just hope NFF dont file this to FIFA.

Usman MUHAMMED Midfielder 12 June 1980

This man is 36 year old? Is there a mistake somewhere?

CFCman:
FT: Nigeria 96-92 Argentina

Ike Diogu led D'Tigers with 18 points and 7 rebounds.

There will be a re-match on Wednesday. Interestingly, Argentina are the first opponents of D'Tigers at the Olympics.

This type of friendly will not be possible in football.

oyibotat:
dear all,

do we really understand the "federal character" or quota system that has been invoke for a very long time in Nigeria.

check the population of each zone, the no. of seats occupied at the national Assembly and equate it with the appointments. then and only after then, you can understand why the appointmens are the way they are.

the population census figures we are using, methinks is the problem not Buhari

You're not being sincere with this 'federal character' thing bro. When you talk of population, are you talking of productive population or parasitic population? Are the North East and North West political elites producing as much as they enjoying? This is the other side of what caused riots after the unitary system was introduced many years ago.
Say it as it is, it is selfishness in a rather crude way.

This is damning on Buhari and those NE and NW regions. If Buhari sets such a bad precedence, then the NE and NW may suffer greatly in the near future.

Morale seems to be quite high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICPYD3XOVE

If every Nigerian who made 1st class in UK universities this month should make FP, it will fill FP for 5 consecutive days. Nigerians are getting 1st class like pure water in the UK.

Asked why, as sitting governor, he shuns state executive council meetings with the president, Fayose said: “Each time they call meeting, my deputy goes there”.

So you miss the meeting with Buhari face to face, but you feel the best way to get Buhari is to call him 'two or three times'.
I'm sorry for Ekiti people. Even when Tinubu vs Obasanjo was very hot, OBJ and Tinubu still saw eye to eye. OBJ was beside Tinubu when the Idumagbo bomb blast occured.
If you want to discuss anything with Buhari, you have the SEC meeting to see him face to face. No one is barring you from Aso Rock. You calls could be as absurd as your utterances, so I dont expect any sane person to take your calls seriously. Anyone can call Aso Rock and claim to be Fayose.