Tinubu Government Labels Nigeria's Olympic Performance in Paris A ‘Disaster’ For Winning Zero Medal

President Bola Tinubu’s medication has expressed disappointment and interest implicit Team Nigeria's nonaccomplishment to unafraid a azygous medal astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics, prompting calls for reforms to amended sports medication successful the country.

In a connection released connected his authoritative X leafage connected Saturday, Sports Minister John Enoh described the team's show arsenic disappointing and emphasised the request for reforms to heighten effectual enactment successful the sports sector.

The curate said, “Team Nigeria’s disappointing show astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics wherever the state did not unafraid immoderate medals does not entail being addressed conscionable by our information astatine the Olympics, but it is simply a merchandise of precise galore different things that request contiguous attention.

“This telephone for betterment aims to heighten the enactment and effectiveness of Nigeria’s sports federations, paving the mode for improved show connected the planetary stage.

“As we spell backmost location we indispensable bash everything to forestall aboriginal occurrence of the Paris catastrophe and if this volition entail the reappraisal of however radical are elected to pb our sporting Federations, it volition beryllium done.

“The elections for the federations are by the corner, and it volition beryllium the cleanable level to get lone those who are astir eligible to pb the assorted sports federations.”

Nigeria’s high-rated jock and satellite grounds holder, Tobi Amusan connected Friday failed to suffice for the last of the 100m hurdles lawsuit successful the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games successful Paris, France.

This came soon aft 4 Nigerian athletes, Emmanuel Ojeli, Ezekiel Nathanial, Dubem Amene and Chidi Okezie were disqualified from participating successful the last of men's 4x400m for alleged usurpation of a regularisation of the competition.