Team Nigeria has ended its campaign at the Commonwealth Games with 24 medals after Aruna Quadri won silver in the men’s table-tennis singles.

Nigeria finished the games in Gold Coast with nine golds, nine silvers and six bronze medals to place ninth on the log behind Australia, England, India, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Wales and Scotland.

The Para Athletes accounted for five of the top podium placements while wrestling had three and athletics one.

Nigeria placed eighth at the 2014 games with 36 medals.

Tobi Amusan had on Friday struck gold in the women’s 100m hurdles clocking 12.68 Seconds. This increased Nigeria’s medal haul to eight gold, five silver and five bronze medals.Gold medalist, Odunayo Adekuoroye clinched first gold for the country in the women’s wrestling freestyle 57kg after defeating India’s Pooja Dhanda with a 7-5 victory by points.
Blessing Oborududu also claimed the second gold medal after staging a terrific comeback from a 3-0 deficit to beat Canada’s Danielle Lappage 4-3 in the women’s freestyle 68kg.
Para-athlete Suwaibidu Galadima led from the start to finish to win gold in the men’s the men’s T47 100m final with a time of 11.04s.
Amas Daniel won bronze coming from 4-0 down to equal it at 4-4 against South Africa’s Terry Van Rensburg, winning bronze in men’s freestyle 65kg.
Aminat Adeniyi won gold in the women’s wrestling 62kg freestyle Nordic, while Melvin Bibo and Mercy Genesis both added silver and bronze to the wrestling medals pool.
Faith Obazuaye settled for silver in the women’s para-table tennis.
The quartet of Patience Okon-George, Glory Nathaniel, Praise Idamadudu and Yinka Ajayi won silver in the women’s 4x400m relay.
Sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare led Nigeria’s women’s 4x100m relay team to win bronze.

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/04/nigeria-ends-commonwealth-games-with-24.html

Them try.......just that 2019 is too far to celebrate this pple
#when u know,u know

Wait wait wait.....Mr Seun I've lost count of my FTC oooo and alert neva blow my account(somebody help me with that "which kain wahala be this" meme)

it is well....they hv tried....we looking towards Olympic games....

Congrats

Congrats to them but the gap between them and first is mindblowing.

Well done Team Nigeria

thank we're not BLLB

Nice

not bad at all

Congratulations

Op, you should have also told us they came second to the last.

see what a guy did to his friend. some friends are just so wicked, they can kill your ego within 5seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRXHPsEDb4k

Against all odds.....shame to the predictors of woes. Well-done AFN

Well done. More grease next time

Good Outing by Team Nigeria. With more support from the government and private bodies, Nigerian athletes can win more medals in subsequent games.Now is the time to start preparing for the Olympic games.

medallion

raphok1:
Op, you should have also told us they came second to the last.

Classic case of an ignorant person trying to be smart. So, where would you place countries that did not win any medal? No. 1?

We will consistently finish first if we give half a fuuucckk

at least them try, na country no get anything

Washere haruna quadriple.. Losing to a Chinese is cool tho not that ur Egyptian nemesis...

....Gbaanmmmm

adioolayi:
Against all odds.....shame to the predictors of woes.
Well-done AFN

Them try but we can do better. We're just too big and too blessed not to be up there with the very best.


Poor administration, management and lack of the required support has been our bane.

Gbaammm !

Opinionated:


Classic case of an ignorant person trying to be smart. So, where would you place countries that did not win any medal? No. 1?

Man, just look at Australia.

Buhari we got 40 medals in the last edition 40-36 medals now. You didn't support enough.

..... Coming from. Someone. Who has never won anything in his entire existing. Life

raphok1:
Op, you should have also told us they came second to the last.

Chai Naija! Weh done to una...my kontry Ghana arrived with a hefty return of one plus scandals about officials charging people to take them to the games as athletes so they run away once they get there. Which they did. Lmao you nigerians complain too much

Congrats to us!