Nigeria's Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, has declared in strong terms that the ministry is unbending in its resolve to unearth reasons Favor Ofili, one of Nigeria's medal prospects in the 100m race was not listed for the race at the ongoing Olympic Games Paris2024.

Although the Sports Minister charged Ofili to refuse to be distracted by the sad development, he assured that the Ministry has intensified efforts find out at what point Ofili's name dropped out of the 100m race, those behind it and their motives.

"The 100m race got off to a start today (Friday), sadly without Favor Ofili, the Sports Minister began in a statement.

"I was on the matter until early hours of today (Friday), with the hope of giving Nigerians something to be happy about", Senator Enoh further said, adding that from the moment he made known his position on the matter, officials of the NOC haven't slept.

"The NOC President Engr Habu Gumel and his team have kept vigil, traversing  between the Director of Competition, the Technical Committee and the World Athletics. 

"I have been duly informed that some other countries have similar issues, but these aforementioned bodies do not want to open a floodgate that would become difficult to manage.

"Howbeit, I am not concerned about other countries. My interest is with my own country, Nigeria, and who is responsible for the non listing of Favor Ofili.

"I have been briefed that the World Athletics submitted that when the final list was published in July by it, AFN should have called its attention to the omission of Favor Ofili's name. 

"This still doesn't address the issue. The issue is:'At what point did her name drop out of the 100m race?
Who's responsible for this?
What's the motivation behind this? And what's 
the trail of communication from AFN to NOC and to IOC and/or World Athletics?'

"All these are questions that must be answered immediately after the Olympics. 

"For now, I appeal to Favor Ofili to refuse to allow this distract her concentration in the remaining races  for which she has been listed (I'm in touch with her on this). And for the rest of Team Nigeria, particularly the athletics team, let them stay motivated to win", the Sports Minister concluded.