Nigeria’s Nationwide Sports activities Fee (NSC) has despatched forth the rustic’s boxing workforce with a morale boosting goodwill message to Africa’s first elite newbie championship billed to start this Friday in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sports247 reviews that the message, which was once issued by way of NSC director-general, Honourable Bukola Olopade’s particular assistant media, Kola Daniel, got here at the eve of the departure of 10 Nigerian pugilists to the inaugural African Boxing Elite Championship.
Daniel disclosed that the Nigerian contingent will function boxers competing in 10 weight classes, comprising 5 male and 5 ladies, as the rustic seeks to make a robust affect on the continental championship.
With the exception of the 10 boxers who’re billed to function within the pageant that may finish on October twenty eighth, a complete of nineteen delegates can be within the nation’s contingent travelling out on Tuesday for the contest, which Daniel described as a symbolic construction.
He defined that the intensity of Nigeria’s workforce to the inaugural elite championship displays the rustic’s untiring dedication in opposition to selling elite boxing and strengthening the country’s presence at the continental level.
Daniel added, “The contest will supply a very powerful platform for Nigeria’s elite boxers to check their talents towards one of the continent’s easiest, acquire treasured global revel in and exhibit the intensity of Nigerian boxing ability.
“The Nationwide Sports activities Fee needs the workforce a a success time out and urges the athletes to uphold the rustic’s popularity for competitiveness, self-discipline and excellence as they constitute the country in Kenya.”