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Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde; Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Project Manager, GAC Motors Ogba, Herman Tan and Chairman of CIG Motors in Nigeria, Mrs. Diana Chang, during an inspection of GAC Motors Nigeria Assembly Plant at Wempco Road, Ogba, Ikeja on Thursday, 11 August, 2022.
Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku, a former Olympic medalist and holder of the African record for the 400-meter dash, has urged the Federal Government that is led by President Muhammadu Buhari to honour the women's 4x100-meter relay team that represented Nigeria so well at the recent Commonwealth Games in Birmingham by winning the elusive gold medal and setting an African record in the process.
The foursome of world record holder Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Grace Nwokocha, and Rosemary Chukwuma ran a new African record of 42.10 seconds, which erased the one-month-old African record of 42.22 seconds they set in Oregon, the USA at the World Athletics championships. This allowed Team Nigeria to win the elusive gold medal for Team Nigeria on Sunday at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.
Ogunkoya, who was the first Nigerian athlete to win an individual medal in the track and field competition at the Olympic Games, expressed his excitement over the team's remarkable performance and remarked that the team had run well and done the country of Nigeria proud.
Ogunkoya expressed her congratulations to the Nigerian women's 4100 relay team in a voice message that she sent to LEADERSHIP Sports. "The Nigerian women's 4100 relay team ran very well, and I want the President to honour them," Ogunkoya said. "They made Nigerians proud, and they made themselves proud, too, so congratulations to them," Ogunkoya said.
Tobi Amusan set a new world record at the World Championships, which were held in Oregon, United States of America. The former gold medalist in the 400-meter event at the All African Games wants the President to recognize Tobi Amusan for her achievement.
At the most important athletic competition in the world, which took place in Oregon, the star athlete from Nigeria broke the record for the 100-meter hurdles twice before she was declared the winner of the event. She is the first athlete from Nigeria to accomplish this accomplishment.
"The President ought to recognize Tobi for her performance in breaking the World Record. She made Nigeria proud," Ogunkoya said.
Singer, Kizz Daniel, has apologized for failing to perform at a show in Tanzania on Sunday.
Daniel, who was arrested in Dar es Salaam over the incident on Monday, however, narrated his side of the story.
Recall police had arrested him over the incident while the show promoter, Stephen Uwa, had said he paid $60,000 to the music star and pleaded with him for over five hours to no avail.“He only said the airline didn’t bring his bag. That is why he could not perform because his gold chain is not there and he had a gold chain on his neck. He wanted everything,” he said.“I bought him different clothes but he said just because the airline didn’t bring one of his bags, he cannot perform without his gold on his neck,” Uwa had said.
However, in a press conference on Tuesday, the Buga crooner said he and the organisers had decided to make it up to the Tanzanian fans who had shown him so much, love.“The people were already going wild; the fans were going wild, which I know was out of love. So no disrespect to the fans… I was asked to stay back. ‘You can’t go, ‘It’s not safe. So I said ok. I sat down with the team, the organisers, and the promoters; let’s come up with a way to make it up to the Tanzanian fans and we decided to do a makeup show for free. I even agreed to partner with them this time around.
“This Friday, a free show; I will be partnering with Straight Up Vibes to make that happen. I must apologize to the fans. None of this was intentional.”
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