Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s under 18 girls handball team got their second victory at the IHF Women’s Trophy Africa Continental Phase ongoing in Abidjan, Ivory Coast after they inflicted a humiliating 54-17 victory over Madagascar on Wednesday.
The girls under the tutelage of coach Shittu Adewunmi Agboola, were determined to take the bull by the horn after their struggled win over Guinea on day 1 of the competition and they set out quite early to make the contest a mismatch, leading in the first half by a massive 23-8.
The second half continued just as same as captain Esther Matthew led her teammates with a higher intensity as they ruthlessly destroyed their opponent by a 31-8 score to earn a satisfactory 54-17 victory.
Nigeria’s Taiwo Babatunde was voted the MVP of the match.
The next match for Nigeria will be against Rwanda on Thursday at 1pm Nigeria 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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