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OVER 500 ATHLETES GATHER FOR NIGERIA MILITARY GAMES

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A record number of 592 athletes drawn   from nine Nigerian military and paramilitary agencies are taking part in 15 sports at the fourth edition of the ‘One Service, One Medal’ Games which got underway in Abuja on Wednesday 20 January.

The games will run for five days.  According to a statement by the media office of Nigeria’s minister of ports, Sunday Dare, the events were initially billed to hold last year in Kaduna.  

Events  being competed for include: athletics,  table tennis,  tennis,  weightlifting,  squash,  badminton,  boxing,  shooting and  tug of war. Others are swimming, golf, chess, beach volleyball, scrabble and taekwondo”

The participating agencies include: Correctional Service, Federal Fire Service, Nigerian Customs Service, Immigration, Nigerian Police, EFCC, ROAD SAFETY, NSCDC, Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Navy.

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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