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A GOLD AND THREE SILVER MEDALS FOR NIGERIA IN BADMINTON

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BY KUNLE SOLAJA

Nigeria’s badminton team won only one gold medal in the four final matches the team played on Thursday at the 12th African Games this Thursday.

In essence, it is one gold and three silver medals for Nigeria. The only gold medal was won by Anuoluwapo Opeyori who beat Georges Julien Paul of Mauritius in the Men’s Singles.

Before then, Dorcas Adesokan had lost the Women’s Singles to South Africa’s Johanita Scholtz.  The loss was also followed with that of the pair of Deborah Ukeh and Dorcas Adesokan losing the Women’s Doubles to Hadia Elsaid and Doha Toufic of Egypt in the Women’s Doubles.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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