United States of Nigeria Solomon Dalung under fire Solomon Dalung in a recent video referred to America as "United States of Nigeria".

Solomon Dalung, Nigeria's minister of Sports and Youth Development is in the news again.

Dalung made headlines today, August 4, 2016 when a video of the minister surfaced on social media.

Dalung while reacting to the condition of Nigeria's U-23 football team who were stranded in America, the minister referred to the country as "United states of Nigeria".

He said: "Our U-23 team suffering in the United States of Nigeria, What are there for? Because they are U-23 and they went to US and they are having problems, does that become our business?"

This immediately began to generate reactions from from Nigerians on Twitter.