All eyes on Nigeria’s ‘12 warriors’

Can Nigeria spoil the gold medal jinx at the twenty third African Fencing Championships, which starts this present day at the Charterhouse Lagos? That's the ask that the 12 stars chosen to indicate the country at the continental fiesta will try to acknowledge when they enter the ring against a pair of of essentially the most efficient fencers on this planet.

In accordance to the Nigeria Fencing Federation (NFF), over 150 of the continent’s most exciting fencers are taking piece within the championships, which runs from this present day to June 29, 2025.

This prestigious five-day, 12-match match will most definitely be officially declared originate by Lagos Allege Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. This 365 days’s championship promises high-stake drama and elite competitors, with 50 ladies and 100 men from 18 countries vying for continental glory.

It moreover marks yet every other milestone for Charterhouse Lagos, which successfully hosted Nigeria’s first Fencing World Cup in 2024.

The match will characteristic a thrilling combine of regional, continental, Olympic, and world champions. Preliminary rounds will sort up to intense medal showdowns, highlighting a dynamic blend of rising stars and seasoned veterans.

In Team Nigeria’s squad are the United States-primarily based United States-primarily based Inkosi Brou, and Oluwafolayemi Akinyosoye, who's predicated within the United Kingdom (UK).

They're joined by Data Okanlawon; siblings Mahatir and Mahadi Idongesit, Olumuyiwa Ige, Oritsematosan Egbesemirone, Alex Chizim Aninyei, and Babade Adegbola, who are dwelling-primarily based.

But they are going to be confronted with battles against such tested stars as Mohamed El-Sayed of Egypt, the 22-365 days-feeble bronze medalist from Paris 2024 and defending African champion within the lads’s Epee. Mohammed’s younger brother, Mahmoud El-Sayed, the reigning world junior champion, is moreover in that class.

Additionally within the combine is Shamel Youssef (ranked Tenth in junior men’s épée), alongside fellow Egyptians Osama Eslam and Elkord Houssam. Egypt’s dominance in this category makes them the crew to beat within the lads’s crew épée.

The ladies’s epée moreover has such not easy stars as defending champion Alexandra Ndolo of Kenya, a 38-365 days-feeble Germany-primarily based fencer, will most definitely be aiming to aid her title, apart from Tunisian and Egyptian contenders in what promises to be a tightly contested match.

Nigeria’s 12-man squad heads into the African Fencing Championships with a resolution to interrupt their medal drought at the continental showpiece. For many crew members, the match items an extraordinarily important different to win precious ranking points of their quest to qualify for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.