GUESS WHO IS REPRESENTING NIGERIA TO BEAR THE OLYMPIC TORCH.

Funke Khadijat Akindele Oloyede, Banky W, Kanu Nwankwo, Sasha and Steve Onu popularly called Yaw have been named as Nigeria's representatives to bear the prestigious Olympic Torch.

The top Nigerian celebrities would be in London this summer at an event heralding the age long event which started in Greece. The city of London would host the world in an Olympic Games starting in July, 2012.

They will carry the torch at an Olympic Torch Relay holding in Coventry on Sunday, July 1, 2012.

Controversial rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem was the first Nigerian artiste to bear the Olympic Torch. He achieved this feat while still signed on Kennis Music in his hay days in the music industry.

Funke Akindele is a top Nollywood actress who recently got married. Banky W is an RnB Nigerian singer.

Kanu Nwankwo is an ex-Nigerian football international and a former African footballer of the year. He is also an Olympic gold medalist, which he won in 1996.

Yaw is a top Nigerian radio presenter with Wazobia FM, Lagos. And Sasha is a Nigerian rapper.

You can watch them live here: http://london2012.com/torch-relay/video/live.html . Do not forget 9:30am on 1st July tomorrow.

On July 1, 2012 which makes the 44th day of  the 80 day on-going Olympic relay, Sasha will carry the torch in Birmingham UK for the stipulated 300 meters.

The Olympic torch relay which kicked off on May 19, 2012 when the first torch was lit by England football player David Beckham will end on July 27, 2012 marking the beginning of the Summer Olympics UK 2012.

For these celebrities chosen, it would be a lifetime honour and privilege to add being 'a former Olympic Torch bearer' in their profiles. It shows they have had a good track career records. In all the top celebrities in Nigeria, they have been chosen to carry the Olympic Torch. Congrats to them all.