The Vice President of Nigeria Boxing Federation, Brig. Gen. Joseph Ayeni, has commended all the boxers for stepping up their games at the just concluded national trials and appealed to the Ministry of Youth and Sport, to take the remaining eight boxers who could not make the team as sparing partners to the finalists on the foreign tour ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
The NBF has just concluded final trials to select eight boxers for the 21st Commonwealth Games holding in Australia.
Sixteen national boxers were initially invited for camping and they competed for over two days, while judges watched and assessed their performances at the Brai Ayonote Gymnasium, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
At the end of the trials, the Technical Committee immediately met to make their final decisions and released the final list of the boxers.
The seven-member selection committee headed by the Federation’s Vice President and Chairman Technical and Rule Committee, Brig. Gen. Ayeni, after intense deliberation released the final four male and four female boxers.
According to NBF, those who made the final female list are: Ayisat Oriyomi for – 51kg (Lagos State); Yetunde Odunuga for -60kg (Army); Itunu Oriola for – 69kg (Lagos) and Millicent Agboegbulem for – 75kg (Delta).
The male boxers are: Ojo Sikiru Fatai for – 56kg (NPF); Soyoye Kazeem for – 60kg (Ogun State); Paris Umeh for – 69kg (Army) and Lukmon Lawal for – 81kg (NSCDC).
