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September 19, 2019
The Minister of Youths and SportsDevelopment, Sunday Dare says there will be a presidential reception for theathletes that represented Nigeria at the recent African Games held in Morocco.
Dare announced this while briefingState House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC meetingpresided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
The Minister said that the nation’sfemale and male basketball teams had also creditably acquitted themselves andwould also be given presidential reception, adding that the reception would beat a yet to be fixed date.
The Team Nigeria came second on thetable at the 2019 African Games in Morocco with one hundred and twenty sevenmedals behind Egypt which topped the table with two hundred and seventy threemedals.
Nigeria came second on medals tableright after Egypt; Nigeria had 46 Gold medals, 33 silver medals, 48 bronzemedals a total of 127 medals as against that of Egypt that had 273 medals.