By some strange quirk of fate, immediately after I blogged on the countries 50yrs of achievements, Nigerians excelled in their national pastimes of corruption, cheating, and drug dealing .....
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..... and all in connection to sports events.
At the Commonwealth Games, three Nigerian 'athletes'
failed drug tests ..... To lose one athlete to a drugs test, may be
regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness, but three
'smacks' of an epidemic of drug taking in the camp!
And in the bidding for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a Nigerian FIFA executive committee member, and President of the West African Football Union, Amos Adamu, said he wanted $800,000 (£500,000) to build four artificial football pitches ..... maybe a bit unorthodox maybe, but laudable aims eh?..... however he said it was a 'private' project and he wanted the cash paid 'directly' to him ..... Hmm, really?
And in the bidding for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a Nigerian FIFA executive committee member, and President of the West African Football Union, Amos Adamu, said he wanted $800,000 (£500,000) to build four artificial football pitches ..... maybe a bit unorthodox maybe, but laudable aims eh?..... however he said it was a 'private' project and he wanted the cash paid 'directly' to him ..... Hmm, really?
If corruption, incompetence and criminality were Olympic events, Nigeria would be hard to beat ....
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