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The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) has officially written to the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) of its decision to withdraw the boys’ team from next month’s World Youth Championships (WYC) taking in Tunisia on December 4-11.
According to the President of NTTF, Ishaku Tikon, the decision to withdraw the team was based on the lack of funds as efforts by the federation to secure funds from the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development failed to materialise.
Tikon who was pained by the withdrawal said the federation had written to the ministry about the trip but several visits and pleas to secure the funds failed as the usual no-fund excuse became the order of the day.
“I knew what these boys went through before qualifying for this tournament and for two months we had written to the ministry about the trip but we did not get any result from all the visits as the excuse was that there were no funds.
