Deji Aliu
Athletics
Alleged misappropriation of fund and short-changing of the athletes may not be unconnected with the withdrawal notice by the management of Mobil to the Athletic Federation of Nigeria on the sponsorship of the prestigious Mobil Track and Field Championship. Nigeriasports.com confirms.
Athletics
The sponsorship crisis between U.S oil giants ExxonMobil and the Athletics Federation of
Nigeria may have received presidential attention, with the Nigerian leader President Olusegun
Obasanjo, asking the state oil corporation NNPC (Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation) to seek
out the details of the row that threatened the country's most glamorious Track and Field Meeting.
Athletics
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has released the list of Athletets that will represent the country at the summer Olympics in Greece. Uduak Ekah and Doris Jacob did not qualify for their individual events, based on Olympic A standards or AFN standards and they were dropped in the sprint relays for acts of gross indiscipline. Nigeriasports.com can report.
