Nigeria, June 5 -- Nigeria's growing influence on the global athletics stage will once again be under the spotlight on Saturday as four of the country's biggest track stars, Favour Ofili, Ezekiel Nathaniel, Rosemary Chukwuma and Ella Onojuvwevwo, line up against some of the world's best athletes at the inaugural Lone Star Grand Prix in Texas, United States.

The meeting forms part of the newly launched USATF Tour and is one of only two World Athletics Continental Tour Gold events scheduled to be held in the United States this season, alongside the Los Angeles Grand Prix later this month.

For Team Nigeria, the competition presents another major opportunity to test its emerging stars against elite international opposition as preparations i...