Izuchukwu Okosi
Nigeria’s Oluwatobiloba Amusan on Thursday evening stormed to victory in the women’s 100m hurdles finals at the African Senior Athletics Championships in Mauritius reports Prime Business Africa.
The petite trackster finished the race in blistering 12.57s (+4.0)w to bag gold ahead of Morrison Ebony Leea of Liberia, who won silve in 12.77s, while Fourie Marione of South Africa settled for bronze in 12.93s.
The 25-year-old who als also competes as a sprinter won the 2018 Commonwealth and 2018 African champion in the event. She is also a two-time African Games champion and won the Diamond League Trophy in Zurich in 2021 in the 100m hurdles.
The 22nd African Championships is being held in Saint Pierre, Mauritius from 8 to 12 June 2022 at the Cote d’Or National Sports Complex. The event was originally scheduled to be held in 2020 in Oran, Algeria, but had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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