Expdonaloaded Sports News; Onuah wins first gold for Nigeria

DEBUTANT, Elizabeth Onuah, on Tuesday won Team Nigeria’s first gold at the Brazzaville 2015 Games. Onuah who hails from Edo State won the gold in the weightlift­ing event when she lifted 53kg. in the Women’s cat­egory. Onuah’s feat came on a day Samson Siasia tutored Dream Team defeated rival Ghana by 2-0 in the soccer event.
Second half strikes by Junior Ajayi and King­sley Sokari in the 55th and 75th minute gave Nigeria victory in the keenly con­tested match. Nigeria will now face Senegal on Saturday in their second and last group game. The group only has three countries following the withdrawal of Egypt. Siasia commended his boys for rising to the occa­sion against Ghana, even as he charged them to remain focused as the race for the ultimate prize, which is to win the soccer gold medal had just started. Meanwhile, one of the Nigerian referees chosen to officiate at the football event of the All Africa Games was nearly dropped over his poor fitness level. Expdonaloaded sports Physical fitness exercise that he was rec­ommended to be dropped from the Games proper. “ The report by CAF on him did not do Nigeria any good, because it was as if we knew he was not good enough, yet we forwarded his name to CAF” An im­peccable source told us in Brazzaville. “ The only saving grace is that CAF did the nomi­nation themselves,” Our source added. CAF on the other hand argued that as long as a referee is on the FIFA list­ing of a country, it was assumed that he or she is good enough to be picked for any international en­gagement.