Agency Reports
The first batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to the 2022 Commonwealth Games are now in Birmingham, the host city of the event.
The team left the country on Saturday in two groups via the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja.
Musa Oshodi, president of the Nigeria Judo Federation, who was part of Nigeria’s first batch to the Games, confirmed the team’s arrival in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria .
Oshodi said the team arrived around 6 p.m. on Saturday and has already began athletes registration in Birmingham.
Annother batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent is expected to leave late Saturday night to the Games.
NAN reports that 94 athletes and 21 officials will represent the country in nine sports at the Games.
Meanwhile, Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, has charged the athletes to be focused and disciplined.
Dare, in a statement released by his media unit, emphasised that there was going to be zero tolerance for doping by the Nigerian sports authorities.
