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Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Rio 2016: Team Nigeria to depart August 1

The Nigerian contingent to the Rio 2016 Olympics is to leave the nation, August 1 for Brazil, eight days after the hosts opened the Games town.

Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung unveiled yesterday that all courses of action for the group's flight had been set up, even as he demanded the service did at no the reality of the situation will become obvious eventually country's competitors to discover their approach to Rio.

Dalung's SA Media, Nneka Ikem Anibeze in a discharge made accessible to Daily Sunsports yesterday expressed: "Group Nigeria to the Rio Games will withdraw on August 1 2016." She included that the country's competitors that are preparing abroad would get their tickets to Rio midweek.

"The Ministry of Youth and Sports is to send air tickets for the Rio Olympics to competitors by midweek."

Dalung yesterday held a meeting with the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN and staff of the Federation of Elite Athletes Department FEAD, where the ticket outrage issue was talked about.

The Minister hosted summoned both gatherings to build up the creator of the email purportedly sent to competitors in the interest of the service.

Dalung repeated Federal Government's dedication to guarantee that Nigerian competitors are well dealt with in front of the recreations , portraying the mail as fiendish.

"The writer of that email does not have the power to compose for the benefit of the Ministry or even the Federal administration of Nigeria. At no time did we approach our competitors to looked for assets to travel."

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