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Nigeria: Haruna Lauds Daniel's Olympics Qualification
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
23 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Abdulraheem Aodu
Kaduna
Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN) Chair- man, Technical Commit-tee Dr Farouk Haruna has lauded the qualification of Grace Daniel for the Beijing Olympics, which kicks off in August.
Farouk, who has been instrumental to the training and development of the badminton players at Ahmadu Bello Univer-sity Zaria where he is the director of sports, called for support from the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the organised private sector to ensure that Nigeria takes its rightful place at the apex of the game in Africa.
"We are happy that Nigeria will be represented at the Beijing Olympic Games. Grace Daniel qualification is a testimony of what Nigeria badminton players can achieve if given the necessary support. Another player Dotun Akinsanya would have qualified too but his scholarship was terminated due to political motivation.
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"The National Sports Commission (NSC) and private organisations should assist us to sponsor badminton players. We have good players who are the best in Africa but they lacked the necessary logistic supports to catapult them to the world stage where their talents can be adequately appreciated.
"Badminton players must attend at least three major international competitions to earn points and ranks that would qualify them for major interna-tional tournaments like the Oly-mpics and world championships. That is where South Africa has been able to upstage us. Despite the fact that they are not as good as Nigerian players, they have the logistics to attend these international tournaments that matters. They even organise and host some competitions themsel-ves to ensure that their players qualify for these major tourna-ments.
"Most of our players are elites in the university where they are training and studying as well. We have about 10 of them at ABU who are into bachelor degree courses in various endeavours," the member of LOC Kaduna 2008 national Sports Festival added.
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