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News -- Paris 2003 :Why Nigeria's Relay Team Lane Was Empty (380 words) |
 | Afolabi disclosed that when things escalated, the matter was taken to the International Association of Athletics Federations,IAAF president, Lamine Diack. |
 | The soft spoken America-based Afolabi disclosed that, after all the foreign-based (athletes) were paid a flat rate of $4,000 training grant, they argued that the home-based athletes also deserve something because they also train to make the team."This is a career, not a hobby," she said. |
 | But rather than reach a compromise with them, Afolabi said Ngerem 's trademark style of being authoritarian doesn't seem to be something he wants to drop so soon. |
| Nigeriaworld Letters & Viewpoints (A tale of two Ministers: Bola Ige and Afolabi) (537 words) |
 | Bola Ige as Governor, had Afolabi as the deputy who out of greed (he was a poor assistant bursar in UI before becoming governor, and we saw sudden change in fortune in his son who was a class mate in med school then). |
 | Recently Afolabi made a statement about Ige "being asked to come and chop" in the PDP as part of castigations on Ige personality. |
 | Afolabi with the money and power he has acquired at the Federal level with attempt to take Osun state to the PDP found a pupil and follower in Omisore. |