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The Nigeria legend, now an assistant Coach of the Super Falcons, participated in seven African Women Championship final competitions in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, winning gold in five of editions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014).

The early birds to arrive were former U-17 captain, Musa Mohammed, and his former teammate, Taiwo Awoniyi, before Nathan Oduwa, Sodiq Popoola, Imoh Ezekiel, Agboyi Ovbokha, Theophilous Solomon and Godswill Ekpolo joined them

According to the prospectus of the qualifiers: “The tournament shall be used to select players to represent Nigeria in the Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles at the World Tour Nigeria Open scheduled for May 18-22, 2016. Only the four highest ITTF ranked Nigerian players in the April 2016 world ranking in both events shall qualify automatically to represent Nigeria. All players not qualifying automatically but who wish to represent Nigeria are therefore advised to play in the qualifying tournament

He said: “We are having the first training session with 20 players already in camp and I am sure that by now the rest would have arrived.
“They promised to come by first flight today (Tuesday) and by now they should have arrived at our camp to be picked up later for the afternoon session

According to the Head Coach of the ABU Zaria Taekwondo team, two-time National Champion, Alhaji Sani Lawal, the ABU-CCSF collaborative exchange programme was a complete training package for upcoming taekwondo athletes that ranged from physical training, technical-tactical training, competitive training, basic forms training, basic referee training to a full daedo electronic segment

Although Osewa failed in his bid to be crowned Africa’s best player in the Boys’ 14&under category by losing to Damien Laporte of the Seychelles in the final held at the ITF High Performance Centre in Pretoria, he seems to have done enough to be among the few players that will be chosen across all the continents by the world governing body of tennis for the tour