Minister

Dr. Tammy W. Danagogo 

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Federal Ministry of Sports

Key Achievements

• Developed a National Sports Policy to guide the management administration and development of Sports in Nigeria

• Professionalized the National Sports Commission (NSC), for effective service delivery

• Constructed 43 Mini Sports Centres, 17 completed and 26 are ongoing

• Established a Sport Medicine Centre at National Stadium Complex, Abuja

• Let’s Play Programme: held in Lagos and Imo in April 2012, with over 1000 participating children.

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• Online processing of accreditation for participants at the National Sports Festival - 15,430 successfully accredited for the 17th Edition in Rivers State

• Nigeria Placed 3rd on the overall medal table at the All Africa Games in 2011 - 29 Gold, 29 Silver and 42 Bronze Medals

• 60 and 33 athletes have so far qualified for the Olympic Games 2012

• At the First 2012 Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, Blessing Okagbare returned a time of 11.01 secs and is currently 4th fastest woman in the world and she is progressing rapidly in Long Jump and 200m where she is within the first six in the world.

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Key Achievements

• Mariam Usman and Chineye Fidelis, the two female lifters set new African and Commonwealth records in the plus 75kg and 53kg weight categories respectively• Felix Ekpo broke the record with a lift of 202kg, and he is now

ranked Africa’s finest with a total of 286.1268 points.• Augustina Nwaokolo, won another gold medal with a snatch of

75kg and a lift of 95kg in the Clean and Jerk as she had a total of 170kga

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Key Achievements

• Won the 18th African Athletics Championship held in Port Novo, Benin Republic, by Topping the medal table with a total of ten (10) gold medals six (6) Silver and five (5) Bronze out of which three (3) are African records Short Put(w), 4 X100M(W), 4 X 400M(W) and upper Grade A Olympic tickets

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Key Achievements

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Key Achievements

Nigeria won AFCON after 19 years in 2013

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President Jonathan with the super eagles + AFCON trophy

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Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke and the Super Eagles TEAM after winning the AFCON in 2013.