Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s U-18 Women’s Handball national team has qualified for the 2024 IHF Women’s Youth World Championship after defeating Morocco 28-14, Wednesday night at the Africa Women’s Youth Handball Championship in Monastir, Tunisia.
The Nigeria’s U-18 ladies went into the quarterfinals match with a victory needed to qualify for the 2024 Handball World Championship which will hold in China, reports Prime Business Africa.
The West African side led at the half time break with a score of 17-5 albeit the Moroccans came back stronger in the second half.
The north Africans’ resolve were however too little, too late as the more skillful Nigerians triumphed 28-14 to reach the semifinals.
Nigeria will play Egypt in the semi finals on Friday at 6:30pm
Nigeria’s Chidera Ogwumsimba was voted MVP of the match.
The World Championship ticket is the first achieved by the country in Handball. The team will also participate in the IHF Women Trophy Intercontinental Phase later in the year
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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