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9.84s!!🤯🔥
World Lead ☑️
National Record ☑️
2nd fastest man in NCAA history ☑️

Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 drops a big PB of 9.84s (0.7) to win his 100m heat at the East Regionals and qualify for the NCAA Championships!

He takes over the 100m World Lead in 2026.

Watch Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 run a PB & World Lead of 9.84s (0.7) over 100m at the NCAA East Regionals!

He broke Olusoji Fasuba's National Record of 9.85s. pic.twitter.com/2lJ0VEpHSD

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) May 29, 2026

Congratulations to him

Congratulations.
Records are meant to be broken.
The commentators murdered the name sha.

Congratulations man
Nigeria win get it's feet

Now surpassed Deji Oyali of 9.99
Congratulations

This is national record. Not world record

Congratulations to him.

Nigerian athletes always start very well in US colleges but later decline when they start excess clubbing, sleeping with various girls and taking dangerous substances. Toni Amusan seems to be an exception these days.

I wish this young chap the best. He should stay away from all vices so he can continue excelling in his career.

Congrats to him.
Good thing he’s not representing Nigeria

ARISHEM:
This is national record. Not world record

I guess you don't know the difference between, national record, world lead and world record. 😏

But he's not running for Nigeria. It seems he is representing the UnitedStates. Impressive but unfortunately he is not patriotic

AnonPoet:
9.84s!!🤯🔥
World Lead ☑️
National Record ☑️
2nd fastest man in NCAA history ☑️

Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 drops a big PB of 9.84s (0.7) to win his 100m heat at the East Regionals and qualify for the NCAA Championships!

He takes over the 100m World Lead in 2026.

Watch Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 run a PB & World Lead of 9.84s (0.7) over 100m at the NCAA East Regionals!

He broke Olusoji Fasuba's National Record of 9.85s. pic.twitter.com/2lJ0VEpHSD

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) May 29, 2026

Dude sprints like Usain Bolt...

Great record and news for Nigeria

Congratulations man. Avoid Tinubu by all means.

rofanx13:
Now surpassed Deji Oyali of 9.99
Congratulations

Soji Fasuba holds the previous record at 9.85

Did I hear the commentator pronounce his name as CANCELO?

ARISHEM:
This is national record. Not world record

World record for 2026, calm down dey read

LibertyRep:
Congratulations.
Records are meant to be broken.
The commentators murdered the name sha.

The commentators are the ones who will make the most benefit from this record, along with his japa country while we lazy Nigerians famz him without contributing anything meaningful to the achievement. Meanwhile we continue to ironically blame the same oyinbos for our enduring underdevelopment.

What a shame

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

Bluna:
That's no doubt a great feat. Wow! 🇳🇬✌️

Usain bolt's 9.58 record still remains unbreakable since 2009.

That one go hard and tey gan. Usain Bolt wey dey fly say na run him dey run 😀😀😀😀.

We are talking about world records, you are talking about Nigerian record. How are you sure it wasn't rigged like every other thing in Nigeria? We are now at a cross road where everything needs to be questioned

Maybe the wind speed helped him
Lets check his shoes
Maybe he didnt eat Akpu that day

Giving up on Nigerian 😭

AnonPoet:
9.84s!!🤯🔥
World Lead ☑️
National Record ☑️
2nd fastest man in NCAA history ☑️

Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 drops a big PB of 9.84s (0.7) to win his 100m heat at the East Regionals and qualify for the NCAA Championships!

He takes over the 100m World Lead in 2026.

Watch Kanyinsola Ajayi (Auburn) 🇳🇬 run a PB & World Lead of 9.84s (0.7) over 100m at the NCAA East Regionals!

He broke Olusoji Fasuba's National Record of 9.85s. pic.twitter.com/2lJ0VEpHSD

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) May 29, 2026

kudos to his feet

True feat

RichDad1:
I guess you don't know the difference between, national record, world lead and world record. 😏

No mind am jare, good you corrected him

KingOfAmebo:
Dude sprints like Usain Bolt...

Who tell you say Usain Bolt dey Sprint, that one dey fly 😁😁😁😁😁

They will soon invite him for all the manners of drug tests now. They will soon drain his blood in the name of looking for drugs and dope in his system..

This is incredibly fast

I'm proud of you, Kayinsola Ajayi.

I don't know if you guys will agree with me, I have watched so many races over the years including Usain Bolt's own over and over again.
I noticed most 100m sprinters are not too tall guys but heavily built like the likes of Blake, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin, Maurice Green and so many others.
But Usain Bolt is somehow different.
To me I think that his height and ability to run just gave him advantage over others.
.
You will see others running and struggling with their muscles, while Bolt will just be throwing his long legs upfront 😁😁😁😁
Sometimes he starts slow, but with his long legs, he's so confident of catching and over taking everybody.

Bluna:

That's no doubt a great feat. Wow! 🇳🇬✌️

Usain bolt's 9.58 record still remains unbreakable since 2009

Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala is still the African record holder with 9.77

Nigeria all time best is 9.79 by Favour Ashe

Some Nigerians can beat that record, but they may be busy hawking or studying.
Some people don’t even know how to go about to participate in these competitions without connections

Hmmm....sorry to be a wet rag but... you see, athletics, cycling...let us just say wait for VAR...sorry WADA to approve first.... for now CONG....

RATS will come later.

Learnt my lessons starting 1988 with the greatest race of all time involving Ben Johnson v Carl Lewis. So, so, so disappointing. Then one of my all time heros, cycling's Lance Armstrong....smh

Treasure17:
Congratulations man. Avoid Tinubu by all means.

With this type of run, you mean?

Who is this one?
Just imagine!

ironheart:
We are talking about world records, you are talking about Nigerian record. How are you sure it wasn't rigged like every other thing in Nigeria? We are now at a cross road where everything needs to be questioned

Maybe the wind speed helped him
Lets check his shoes
Maybe he didnt eat Akpu that day

Giving up on Nigerian 😭