Nigeria: All Africa Games - Okagbare to Leave for Congo Thursday

10 September 2015

Africa's queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, THISDAY can reveal this morning is to leave for Congo Brazzaville thursday to compete for Nigeria in the track & field events of the 11th All Africa Games (AAG) starting this weekend.

After the furore generated by Okagbare's withdrawal from the 200m and 4x100m events of the last IAAF World Championship in Beijing, China, the double Commonwealth Games sprint gold medalist had planned as no-show for the AAG.

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