The 2016 Summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro are over and yet a country as big as Nigeria comes home with just a bronze medal. This time, there were additional disgraceful actions and inactions from the Nigerian Football Federation and the sports ministry before and during the biggest sporting events in the world.
Where do we start from? Is it from the social media plea by Nigerian athletes to crowd- source fund to find their way to Rio? Or from the Dream Team VI that got stranded in Atlanta, Georgia only to arrive Rio few hours before their first match? Perhaps from the opening ceremony where Nigerians filed out while dressed in their tracksuits? Should we start from the fact that Mikel John Obi, had to use his personal money- $4,000, to ensure that the Nigeria Olympic team did not miss their flight to Salvador while players and officials of the Dream Team VI, were held to ransom in Sao Paulo, over unpaid bills incurred by additional officials? Or from the fact that Nigeria's Olympic kit only turned up a few days to the end of the Olympics after most athletes had completed their events? I am quite sure there are many more embarrassing moments unknown to the public.
