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Team Nigeria’s Olympic-bound Wrestlers Begin Camping In Germany On Monday
Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) has said that the oversea camping stage for its wrestlers’ preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics will begin on Monday in Saarbrucken, Germany.
NWF President Daniel Igali revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ibadan, saying the oversea’s training would follow the ongoing local camping in Yenagoa which will end on Sunday.“Preparations for the Olympics are in top gear. We’ve been in camp in Yenagoa for over two weeks, and training so far is going well.
“We have five Olympics-bound athletes and three training partners each in camp.
“The lone male among the Olympics-bound wrestlers is not in camp yet, and that is Ashton Mutuwa who is based in the U.S.
“Already, Adekuoroye who is also based in the U.S. has now joined us. Mutuwa will join the overseas camp because of his peculiar situation.
“He has very good training partners in the US, and we want that to continue because we’re quite happy with his training situation there, which we are monitoring very closely,” he said.
Igali assured that Mutuwa was being monitored closely and so far the NWF was impressed with what he was doing.
He also said Adekuoroye has done a lot of training in respect of pace and strengthening.
“We believe that she has good training partners here in Nigeria that will really get her fortified for the Olympics, because we have a lot of hope for her at this Olympics,” the NWF President said.
He disclosed that while the wrestlers were expected to camp in Germany for three weeks, the federation was hopeful that they would be there till July ending.
”This is because we won’t start competing until August 5, and we will like to go to the Games Village for four days to our events,” Igali said.
Speaking also, Purity Akuh, the head coach of the female wrestling team, said the athletes and their training partners were in their preparation phase and working so hard.
He said his expectations as the coach was for every one of the qualified athletes to win medals at the Paris Games.
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Kenyan President Bows To Pressure, Withdraws Finance Bill Amid Death Of Protesters
Following the death of over twenty (20) people protesting a bill containing tax hikes, Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday has conceded to withdraw his assent to the bill.
Protesters had while protesting the bill stormed the parliament in opposition to the legislation.
President Ruto however warned that the withdrawal of the finance bill would mean a significant shortfall in funding for development programmes targeted at helping farmers and schoolteachers, among others.
The East African nation is currently struggling to lower its foreign debt burden.
“I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 finance bill and it shall subsequently be withdrawn,” Ruto told a press briefing, adding, “The people have spoken.”
The administration has been taken by surprise by the intensity of opposition to its tax hikes, with protests breaking out across the country last week.
Protesters were largely conducting themselves peacefully until Tuesday when the rallies turned violent after lawmakers passed the legislation and police fired live rounds into crowds that ransacked the parliament complex.
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said it had recorded 22 deaths and 300 injured victims, while vowing to investigate the incident.
Citizens frustration over the rising cost of living rose as lawmakers began debating the bill containing the tax hikes last week.
Government had explained that the increases were crucial to service the country’s massive debt of some 10 trillion shillings ($78 billion), equal to roughly 70 percent of Kenya’s GDP