Senate Cttee Threatens To Probe Dalung, NOC Over Failure In Olympics

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports, Senator Obinna Ogba, said the committee might probe the roles of the Minister of Sport, Solomon Dalung and the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) in the abysmal performance of Nigeria’s team at the just concluded Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ogba who made who made this disclosure in Abuja, said a lot of factors ranging from funding to logistics contributed to Nigeria’s woeful failure at the games.

“My committee intends to invite the NOC to come and brief us on the Olympics. Apart from the late arrival of our athletes’ kits, you can see even our national anthem at the opening ceremony was the wrong one. So, all these, we are going to find out what happened when we resume,” Ogba said.

Ogba also criticised the football team for collecting $390,000 donation by a Japanese plastic surgeon, Dr. katsuya Takasu, saying the team did not know the source of the money.

“I don’t think it was nice for our country to accept such money given the happenings around world now. Money is good but it’s not every money that comes your way that you collect. So, I associate myself fully with the President of the Nigeria Football Federation,” he noted.

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Man Charged After Threatening To Feed Boy To Alligators

A man has been arrested and charged with child abuse after allegedly threatening to feed a boy to alligators .

Dereck Dunn, who is not the boy's father but has children with his mother, is said to have made the terrifying threat before beating the eight-year-old.

According to the New York Daily News , an affidavit says the unnamed child and his young sister were left with Dunn at home in Florida. The 28-year-old is then said to have taken the boy to the back garden and allegedly picked him up before making the threat to feed him to the reptiles.

The youngster claimed Dunn hit him and pushed his face into a carpet, leaving him gasping for air, before chasing him into a cupboard where he beat him with a belt.

The boy also claimed Dunn said he would buy him a dress and tiara .

According to court documents, the boy had “patterned injuries to his right cheek/eye area and patterned loop-shaped injuries to his buttocks, arms and legs”.

Dunn has denied hitting the boy with a belt and pushing the boy's head into a carpet but has admitted accidentally hitting the boy in the face while playing and hitting him with a belt a few days earlier.

The boy's mum, Andrea Pritchard, said she had seen Dunn hit her son on the bottom with his hand and claimed Dunn was joking when he suggested feeding the boy to alligators and dressing him like a girl.

Dunn remains jailed on $7,500 (£5,700) bond and has been ordered not to contact the boy. He’s been issued an order of no contact with the victim. He is due to appear in court on September 26.

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