Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s women U-18 Handball team have arrived Monastir, Tunisia ahead of the 19th Africa Women’s Youth Handball Championship which will begin on Saturday, reports Prime Business Africa.
The team coached by Coach Shittu Adewunmi Agboola and his assistant, Opuene Roberts, left the shores of the country on Thursday from the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and landed on Friday in Tunis-Carthage International Airport, Tunis before traveling via bus to Monastir where the competition will hold.
The Nigeria delegation is led by the Secretary General of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) Mr. Almu Umar Lambu.
The team had been in close camping at the Rowe Park Sports Center in Yaba Lagos and had played four friendly matches against Tojemarine Academy Under 17 Boys team and ASPAC HBC of Benin Republic.
They played their last friendly match against the top Benin Republic club which they won 27-21.
Nigeria is in group A with two-time champion and host, Tunisia, Algeria and Guinea.
The Nigerian team will play their first match against Algeria on Saturday at 2pm local time.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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