Team Nigeria has won their first medal at the ongoing AllAfricanGames at the Accra International Conference Center in Ghana.
Offiong Edem won the Bronze Medal in the women’s Table Tennis Singles Event. She lost her semifinal match by 4-0 to Egypt’s Dina Meshref. It is the second consecutive Bronze medal she will be winning at the All-African Games. While speaking to the media “I am so happy that we were able to attend the last World Championships in Korea and this really helped my game a lot. I want to thank the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) for their support and I believe attending such a competition really helped me personally here in Ghana. “The Egyptians are ahead of us because they attend more competitions than us and we hope we can get such support to return to the top of the game in Africa.
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