NAIROBI, KENYA — Group Nigeria has concluded its marketing campaign on the 2026 African Elite Males’s and Girls’s Boxing Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, with an excellent haul of 3 gold medals and two silver medals, because the continental match formally reaches its ultimate day nowadays.
The success represents a exceptional turnaround for Nigeria’s 10-member boxing contingent, which continued a number of disappointing defeats all the way through the early levels sooner than generating a powerful end.
Ajishola Khadijat opened Nigeria’s gold medal account with a commanding 5–0 unanimous choice victory over Algeria’s Malak Noir E within the girls’s 51–54kg ultimate.
Valuable Anine adopted with Nigeria’s 2d gold medal after defeating Algeria’s Benane Djouher within the girls’s 60–65kg class.
Group captain Blessing Orakwe delivered any other impressive efficiency, knocking out Kenya’s Akinyi Elizabeth within the first spherical of the ladies’s 75–80kg ultimate to protected Nigeria’s 3rd gold medal.
On the other hand, Nigeria narrowly neglected out on two further gold medals.
Patricia Mbata settled for silver after dropping a carefully contested 3–2 issues choice to Egypt’s Aboelfead Nabila within the girls’s 70–75kg ultimate.
In a similar way, Ridwan Raheem suffered a heartbreaking 3–2 issues defeat towards Angola’s Bernardo Massimino Sander within the males’s 65kg ultimate, incomes Nigeria’s 2d silver medal.
With the championship concluding nowadays, Thursday, October 22, the Nigerian contingent can replicate on a marketing campaign outlined through resilience, choice and an excellent restoration from early setbacks.
Move River State head trainer Mary Obo Ekpo had previous predicted that Nigeria would go back house with more than one medals in spite of the staff’s tough get started.
Her prediction has now change into truth.
The five-medal end additionally supplies encouragement for Nigeria Boxing Federation President Adebayo Olawale Edun, Vice President Omonlei Yakubu Imadu, and Head of Delegation Capt. Rasulun Kashim.
Because the curtains fall at the African Boxing Championships in Nairobi nowadays, Nigeria departs with 5 medals, 3 continental champions and renewed self assurance at some point of its boxing programme.