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The Nigeria National Women’s Handball team will play Cote d’ Ivoire and Benin Republic at the ANOCA Games for Africa Zone 3 in Togo
The ANOCA Games, which is organised by the Association of National Olympics Committee of Africa in each sporting zone of the continent, is to prepare teams ahead of the All Africa Games which will hold in Ghana in 2024 and that of Africa Zone 3 commenced on Monday, December 4 to 9, 2023.
To this end, the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) has invited 16 players who had a close camping in Lagos under the watchful eyes of coaches Yusuf Abdukadir and Innocent Nwankwo in Lagos before traveling to Lome, Togo ahead of the matches against Cote d’ Ivoire and Benin Republic today.
Top on the list are in form players who just finished playing in the Ardova Handball Premier League 2023 such as Goalkeeper Toyin Yusuf of Plateau Peacocks who was voted the best goalkeeper in the just concluded league, Inipki Aruwa and Diane Saloo of Safety Babes and team captain, Dorothy Nyagh of Defender Babes.
Others are Benin Republic based Rachel Overture and Wuraola Nuhu while Nigeria Women’s Under 18 team players are also represented in the list. They are Esther Mathew and Taiwo Babatunde of Seasider Babe as well as Prudence Samuel and Lucy Onyekwere.
Nigeria will play Benin Republic before also playing Cote d’ Ivoire on Wednesday.
