 The Olympics are ending in two days and there isn't so much that Nigeria can do about Tokyo 2020 right now, but there is so much we can do about the next games. And of course, the next and the next and the next. Our final conversation this morning is how to plan for future Olympic games and get our sports right. We have Athletics Coach and Statistical Analyst and of course, the founder of Nigerian Athletics Media, Fumilaya Fameshul joining us this morning. And also we have the PRO, the Nigerian Olympic Committee, Femi Aditula also with us this morning. Good morning, thanks for joining us. Good morning. Yeah, good morning. Let me say good evening from where I am. Good morning. It's, you know, well, a lot of gathering this morning. I'm Mr. Ashur Yatong. Once again, good morning and thanks for staying with us. We're still struggling. But anyway, I'm going to start with Mr. Aditula. We have another four years to prepare for, you know, the next Olympics. We have enough time, you know, arguably to get it right the next, you know, the next Olympics. How do you think or what do you think we must start doing from today in order to ensure that we are better prepared for the next Olympics? Thank you very much. What I think we should do as from today is to first of all, the government to have a minister that will be in office from now until the next Olympics so that there won't be a change of guard that is number one. Then number two, we have to look at sport, we need to have a policy that will be good for everybody. A policy that we can co-pass in. Mr. Aditula. Okay. We seem to have lost Mr. Aditula there. But Mr. Ashur Yatong, are you there? Okay. Okay. All right. So Mr. Aditula was just talking about the importance of continuity in the sports ministry saying that, you know, when you have people, you know, change coming, come out, there wouldn't be continuity of the processes that have been started. Can you continue on the back of that if you agree with that train of thought? Definitely. As I will get, when we depend on ministers to dictate, ministers are politicians. So we should be taught that a minister should be dictating the sport. I think NOC should be the committee. The president should be doing whatever a minister, to change ministers. The NOC should continue. The NOC should be able to have their foot augment all the time. Like we have said, it means to retain a minister. He's loading it over them. Understand this minister and I think it's equal. But they want to retain this particular. Talking about ministers, when we should be taught, having or to know them, creation of great insourcing for funds, depending on government. So what we have to do is that we only do with what we have to do. So what are we still talking about? We have Mr Aditola back on the line. Welcome back. Thank you. You are making a point there. But something else we need to mention that Mr Aditola also talked about really is about the quality of the people in power. The quality of the people there. Earlier before we went on that break, Mr Oguma was talking about the fact that it's important to have former athletes, people who have been on the field who know where the shoe pinches to be at the head of these bodies, not just people who have political appointments. Also the issue of this political interference with the Sports Ministry and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. Should it be that or should we be talking more about synergy? How do you help us unravel all these issues? The issue is when you want to talk about anything in Nigeria, you can't take it with government interference from anything in Nigeria. Nigeria is just Nigeria. They want to look into it, understand? I belong to Nigeria, let me commentate my board member and I think I will. Where you can't... That's not how you want to separate Nigeria from the government because at a point you need to break wall and it's not you wanting to... You say you want to fight against anybody. What we're trying to do is to trust which are supposed to build a program because if you look at the federations and look at the federations we have, it's only Nigeria for both federation that is trying to have their autonomy and the others, they don't have it yet. The NOC, you know, they have told all the other federations over time that they should try as much as possible to have their constitution ready because if you have a constitution, you have a workbook that will guide you through but in a situation whereby the constitution are not ready, how do you work? So how many of the federations have their constitution ready to be able to work as a federation? Aside that, why I mentioned this is because the NOC president he mediated between the international federation and the federation here in Nigeria but as it is in Nigeria, sports is still recreation until we see sports as big business that is where you can say, okay, you want to live like you have your economy but we start without that. There's little or nothing you can do, you understand? So going forward, we have to come together and say, okay, what do we do? Let's look at our policy. Let's go to the national assembly to make sport, to say, okay, sport wants to be on its own, to stand it down and from there, you take it up because outside there, sports is a very big thing. I know what it is. It's not about all these things that you want to pay because I don't belong to this, I don't know. Is this one thing that unifies us as a nation? Because when any sport is being played anywhere, you see people coming from any three different areas coming together as one and they talk about sport. So I want to believe in that, you need to take a very long time for anything that you know in Nigeria. Mr. Adityula, which do you think should come first? Is it the belief in sports and Nigerians basically realizing the value in sports or is it the funding? Would the funding be able to promote sports better, promote these athletes better and give Nigerians more interest in these athletes or should Nigerians just, these persons just suddenly believe more and that will then bring funding? You have to lay foundation before you build a house. How do you build a house? You have to buy land, you have to build a foundation, you have to build it before you roof and before you even need. So you can't start from up, you just have to start from the grassroots. You go back to the foundation, you look at how things have to be done and if the foundation is not providing you with anything, there is nothing you can build up on. So it's very important for us to go back to the roots and say where are the problems. You understand? The moment you have a sports policy in Nigeria, then from there we begin to build up. It's step by step. So that's the thing you can't do from up, it's from down. I also want you to quickly speak on the idea of the Niger Olympic Committee. It was suggested by an NGO that athletes can pull out from any of these federations here in Nigeria and attend Olympics by themselves as a Niger Olympic Committee. They used Russia as an example, Russian athletes as an example. How do you see that playing out and would you advise that also? Well, I belong to the Niger Olympic Committee and as far as I'm concerned today, the Niger Olympic Committee is still the one in charge of whatever things we want to go as regards to Olympics. I don't know, maybe that can happen tomorrow, but as far as this is concerned, I've not heard about it quite alright. But anything can happen anytime, any day. You understand? But as for this today, I think the combatting should be done and let's read it very well and follow your head. Okay, Mr. Sherita, let's talk about training and facilities. We know that facilities is one of the things we lack here in Nigeria. What we take a look at, even our sports stadium and all of that, we at least should train. It really doesn't seem like something to write to them about. You have the jersey issue, the kit issue, logistics issue. When we look ahead for the next Olympics, where do you think we can begin to fix these challenges? Well, let me correct about facilities. Many stadiums train in Nigeria, but they don't really have the weeks. So there are facilities, no equipment. When you see, in the stadium I am right now, no landing foam, no men to walk with on the track we have. When we talk about facilities, they are being equipped well. In terms of kits, when you are at games, you should be well equipped. There should be room, the harder wear that you wear. One more, when you sweat, you change to a dry, your shoes. Those are the equipment we are talking about. You are not well equipped. Definitely, in some competitions, all the other things are having a dry job. They are competing athletes. Go ahead. This is the only thing the athlete is doing. There is nothing that athlete could do at the games to show the sport proper equipment just by the pad here in the country. So it is having facilities. So to me, if we do it now, there is nothing in 2024. Thank you, Mr. Sherr. Mr. Sherr, I want to quickly get your final words. The line was breaking on Mr. Sherr's line. Regarding facilities, training equipment and all that, how can the Olympic Committee, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, the Ministry of Sports and all of our sport bodies come together to make sure that it is better next time? Well, the issue of infrastructure and what have you, as it is, it builds on government to put all this structure in place because, like you said, there must be a stadium and in that stadium there must be a facility inside the stadium. But where are the stadiums in Nigeria that are pointing to us as our own stadium? So all these things we have to put in place it's not the job of anyone, it's only advice that, okay, this is what and what they should do. But government is the one to put all these things in place or private investors are the ones to put in place. You understand that? All these things have to be put in place. It means you can do your sport very well at these facilities. Okay. All right, thank you very much, Mr. Fermi Adetula, PRO Nigerian Olympic Committee. Thank you. And also Le Con Chouetteau, an Athletics Coach. Thank you so much for your time this morning and for speaking with us. Thank you so much, Douglas Nigeria. Amazing. So it's been our Friday Olympic Special here on Plus TV Africa's The Breakfast. We hope you've enjoyed every aspect of the conversation, especially getting that female voice in, talking about Olympics in Nigeria. And, you know, the future come 2024. I guess, yeah, this is where we draw the curtains here on The Breakfast. Fantastic week so far. I'm Anette Felix and I'm wishing you a beautiful weekend. All right, thank you very much.