The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kwara’s gold medal came through national Karate bronze medallist, Bashir Abdulazeez.
Ikobong Uko of Akwa Ibom and Abdulraman Mohammed of Bauchi
both won bronze medals respectively. NAN reports that Abdulazeez had won gold
medal at the 2nd edition of the Games in Ilorin in 2016. The athlete was part
of the team that made the country proud at the UFAK Zone 3 Karate Championship
in Cotonou, Benin Republic recently.
Anambra’s gold
medal came through Peter Emmanuel, who won Kelvin David of Plateau in the -50kg
male category. The Coach of Team Anambra, Godwin Okoro, said the victory was a
welcome development and a vindication of his efforts at discovering future
athletes. Okoro, who congratulated his athletes for their impressive showing
and making the state proud, noted that he had targeted more medals from the
event.
It will be recalled
that Okoro had faulted the decisions of the officials in the fight involving
his female athletes, Blessing Nnadozie and Amarachi Nwafor on Monday. He had also threatened to stop his team from
featuring in future Games if the unfair treatment continued. In other games,
Anambra has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Cricket competition in the
female category.
This was after it
beat Plateau girls with 54 runs in 5.4 overs with the loss of eight wickets
against their opponents’ 51 runs in 10 overs with two wickets. Edo also
qualified for the last four after beating Kaduna girls’ 81 runs and loss of
three wickets in 10 overs against their opponents 55 runs and loss of nine
wickets also in 10 overs. Anambra will play with Akwa Ibom, while Edo will play
with Oyo in the semi-finals of the cricket competition.
NAN
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