Olanare on Target for Guangzhou R&F

Nigerian striker Aaron Samuel Olanare was on song for his club Guangzhou R&F in the Chinese super league game on Wednesday.Coming on as a substitute for striker Abderrazak Hamdallah, Olanare scored his team's third and final goal as they thrashed visiting Beijing Guoan 3-1. Guangzhou R&F now sits 3rd on the Chinese super league table with 37 points from 20 games and 11 points adrift table-topping Guangzhou Evergrande FC albeit with a game in hand.

The 20-year-old Olanare who was called-up to the Super Eagles for the Nelson Mandela Challenge against South Africa last year, recently joined the Chinese outfit from Norwegian club side Sarpsborg 08 in July for a fee of €1.40 Million. He has now scored 2 goals in 4 games for his new club. Olanare is the second Nigerian to play for the blue and whites after former Nigerian and Everton Striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni scored 25 goals in 45 games for the Cantonese.

Against all odds, Nigerian flag can,t be stopped from flying in Glasgow Games

Nigeria has pushed so hard beyond expectation in this year’s commonwealth games in Glasgow Scotland and has outperformed her previous outing in Delhi 4 years ago.

With 11 gold medals and 36 medals overall, she is lying 8^th on the medals table behind only to South Africa in the African representatives. Okagabare Blessing leads the medals haul with 2 Gold medals and a silver in the 100m and 200m sprint as well as the 4x100 meters relay. Weightlifting garnered the most medal haul of 6 gold 6 silver and a bronze while wrestling tutored by Igali Daniel gained 2 gold 2 silver and 8 Bronze medals for the West African nation and Africa’s giant.

Last time in 2010 Nigeria came 9^th in New Delhi games in India.

Below is the medals standing as at 2^nd August 2014

Medal Table

#	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 England		56	54	53	163
2 Australia		44	42	45	131
3 Canada		31	16	34	81
4 Scotland		19	14	19	52
5 India		14	28	19	61
6 New Zealand		14	12	17	43
7 South Africa		13	10	16	39
8 Nigeria		11	11	14	36
9 Kenya		10	10	5	25
10 Jamaica		10	4	7	21
11 Singapore		8	3	4	15
12 Wales		4	11	20	35
13 Malaysia		4	7	6	17
14 Cyprus		2	4	2	8
15 Northern Ireland		2	3	7	12
16 Papua New Guinea		2	0	0	2
17 Cameroon		1	3	3	7
18 Uganda		1	0	4	5
19 Grenada		1	0	1	2
20 Botswana		1	0	0	1
20 Kribati		1	0	0	1
22 Trinidad and Tobago		0	3	5	8
23 Pakistan		0	3	1	4
24 Bahamas		0	2	1	3
24 Samoa		0	2	1	3
26 Namibia		0	1	2	3
27 Mauritius		0	1	1	2
27 Mozambique		0	1	1	2
29 Bangladesh		0	1	0	1
29 Isle of Man		0	1	0	1
29 Nauru		0	1	0	1
29 Sri Lanka		0	1	0	1
33 Ghana		0	0	2	2
33 Zambia		0	0	2	2
35 Barbados		0	0	1	1
35 Fiji		0	0	1	1
35 St. Lucia		0	0	1	1