Impressed with the giant stride made by Nigeria in recent times, the Chinese Table Tennis Association has donated equipment to the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation to support its youth development programme.
The donation was facilitated by the Chinese Ambassador in Nigeria, Gu Xiaojie, and the equipment was received in Suzhou at the just-concluded ITTF World Championships by NTTF President, Wahid Oshodi.
Others there with Oshodi included members of the national team led by Segun Toriola.
According to the representative of CTTA, Su Yang Yang, the donation is part of the efforts by the Chinese Government to support Nigeria following the efforts of the country in the sport.
The equipment are table tennis blade (30), rubber (140), racket case (20), sports towel (20), sports bath towel (20) and sports backpack (10).
For the NTTF boss, the equipment would surely help, while commending the envoy for the gesture.
Oshodi said it is another way to promote the sport in Nigeria.
Oshodi said: “We are grateful to the Chinese government for this gesture and we hope this will surely our efforts to unearth and groom world class players in the sport.
“There is no doubt that China is on top of the game globally while their players have remained role models to a lot of players across the globe, including Nigerian players, and we hope that this will also blossom into a mutual relationship that will help us in
Nigeria to develop the game.
“We will put this equipment into use and we hope to continue to partner them and we believe our players will benefit from using it.
“We once again thank CTTA and the Ambassador for this.”
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