Raking up 8 gold medals with two from the latest Queen of the tracks- Blessing Okagbare who won her 100m and 200m with 10.85 and 22.25s times respectively. Nigeria now has 25 points and are the 2nd ranked African team on the medals table behind only to South Africa and 8th in overall table.
The athletes have continued to push up the medals table up from the 11th they were at the beginning of the events.
Now 8th on the table, they are sligthly higher than previous tournament standing which they finsihed at 9th behind Kenya and South Africa. The previuos tournament in Delhi, India saw Nigeria post a total haul of 11 Gold medals and 35 points overall. But with Okagbare who is also good at the Long Jump still in the run for the event and other events coming up, Nigeria's Chances at this year's event in Glasgow Scotland still looks bright though.
Back home rewards won't be out of sight as many would have been accustomed to Nigeria's manner of rewarding after performance to associate with success but prior to it, was nothing to write home about. What could have been had they been prepered and motivated than they were now.
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