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2016 Olympics: Nigeria To Participate In 8 Sports – Dalung

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Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung has revealed that Nigeria will be represented in just eight sporting events at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.

 

Dalung stated that he was not happy with the level of preparation for the Games, but promised that efforts will be made to speed things up.

 

The Minister also assured that the athletes will be well motivated financially, so the country makes a better outing this time around.
“I was surprised when I asked officials about our preparation for the Olympics and was told that it was 40% as at last week and I told them it was not good enough to give us a good outing in Brazil; we need to do more to prepare the athletes,” Dalung said.

 

“Our plan is to present only eight sporting events at the Olympics and we are going to invest more in the sports to make sure they have good outings in Brazil.

 

“But if we willI go beyond the eight we have now, we will look into it and see the decision we can make”, he added.

 

The events will be men’s football, basketball, canoeing, table tennis, some track and field athletes and wrestling.

 

 

Credit : Daily Post

5m Nigerians Displaced By Boko Haram– Senate

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The Senate yesterday condemned the increasing spate terror attacks by Boko Haram sect in the North-East, saying about five million Nigerians have been displaced by the sect.

The concerned raised about the activities of the terror group followed the second reading of two Bills seeking the ?establishment of North-East Development Commission that would be responsible for the rebuilding of the zone on the floor of the Senate.

One of the bills, entitled ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish the North-east Development Commission in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to address the devastation caused by insurgency and other connected matters (2015)..’ was sponsored Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, while Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South) sponsored the second one known as ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish North-East Development Commission charged with the responsibility among other things to receive and manage fund from allocation of the federation account and international donors for the settlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads, houses and business premises of victims of insurgency and for other related matters (2015)’.

The bills which were consolidated are seek to provide a legal framework for the coordination of activities for rehabilitation of internally displaced persons and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed in the North-East.

Painting a pathetic picture of what the people of the North-East were going through in the hands of the insurgents, Gaya said over 15,000 lives were lost while over 5 million people were internally displaced due to the crisis in the region.

He said in view of the level of devastation in the region, an urgent well planned rescue programme to rebuild the region was necessary because Nigeria has the largest population rate of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

Credit:Leadership