Wednesday, 18 March 2015

SPORTS: 7 Nigerian Para athletes off to Tunisia

Seven Para-athletes left Lagos on yesterday for Tunisia to take part in the 9th Tunis International Meet, which holds March 20 to 25. The seven track and field athletes who made the trip are Onye Lauretha, Uwak Unyime, Esther Lawrence, Hannah Babalola, Rotawa Oluwasegun, Pat Nneji and Galadima Suwaibidu.
With The All Africa Games and Rio 2016 around the corner, it appears top officials have finally come to the realization that there is a job to be done. Surprisingly, the National Sports Commission sent the seven athletes to Africa's only IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the year without an accompanying coach. Bisi Okubote, the Para-Athletics Federation secretary rather led the delegation to the event.
Former Paralympic medalist in power-lifting, Patricia Nneji entered to compete in the throws.

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