NYG: Kogi wins Two medals

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Kogi State has won two medals in the ongoing National Youth Game.
Adebayo Tolu, won Silver for team Kogi in shooting, as the state also won bronze in table tennis mixed double.
Team Kogi is participating in seven sporting event.
They are badminton, Chess, Table Tennis, tennis, wrestling, Judo and shooting.
Meanwhile, the Kogi State Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development Hon. Idris Musa has expressed confident that the state representatives will stand tall at the end of the National Youth Game.
Speaking to Sports Writers Association, (SWAN), in Ilorin Kwara State shortly after Kogi won two medals, Musa noted that the feat Kogi have achieved now is a clear attestation that the state is a force to reckon with as it concerns sport.
He maintained that the state athlete have qualified for the next round in most of their sporting event adding that more medals should be expected in the next coming days.
He reminded the state contingents that Governor Yahaya Bello who is a sport loving leader is fully ready to reward athletes that wins laurel for the State stressing that, with the latest developments in Ilorin, team Kogi is doing well and will surpass their previous records in the youth game.
” We are satisfied what the latest coming from Ilorin. Our team came here fully prepared and motivated. This has immediately translated into result. Kogites should expect more medals from our athletes” he said.
As at 4:30PM Delta State are leading the table with 30 gold, 10 silver, eight bronze medal, Edo (Nine gold, four silver, four bronze), FCT, ( Seven gold, six silver, seven bronze), Rivers, ( Seven gold, one silver and eleven bronze), Ondo, (Five gold, four silver and nine bronze.
Ogun, Bayelsa, Oyo, Plateau, and Kwara State made the top ten in the medals table.