Izuchukwu Okosi
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan on Sunday morning became the 2022 Commonwealth Games Gold medalist in the Women’s 100m Hurdles after she clocked 12.30 seconds which is a new Commonwealth Games record reports Prime Business Africa.
A bewildered commentator screamed: “She (Amusan) has forgotten how to lose” as the golden girl of Nigerian Athletics once again lived up to expectations.
Interestingly, all Nigeria’s seven gold medals in Birmingham have come from the women.
Devynne Charlton from the Bahamas came second in 12.58 seconds in the race that rook place at 10.25am.
World champion Amusan is also expected to be part of the Women’s 4x100m final coming up later in the day.
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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