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Commonwealth Games Update: Team Nigeria’s Men and Women Athletes Reach Final

Team Nigeria are through to the final of the Men’s 400m Athletics event after finishing top of their heat in a time of 38.85 seconds reports Prime Business Africa.

The Wome also did Nigeria proud by making it to the final of the 4x100m as they beat others to finish first as they clocked a time of 42.57 seconds in Birmingham.

Miesinnei Genesis scooped gold medal for Team Nigeria after her win over Canada’s Madison Parks, to win women’s wrestling freestyle 50kg.

Genesis’ 3-1 win made it three gold medals for Nigeria in the wrestling events.

Izuchukwu Okosi

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.