In the women category, tournament top seed and women defending champion, Favour Chieke beat hard fighting Joy Nwaiwu, 21-19, 21-11 to retain her title. Favour whose main sport is football, thanked the sponsor, Chief Nnamdi Iroegbu and his Marvico Group of Companies for helping her to discover her badminton talents by bringing the championship to Obazu. Also on the double champions list is the men’s singles champion, Chukwuebuka Ezekwe who paired with Gift Achimike to win the men’s doubles title by beating the duo of Blade Onozie and Ifeanyi Nwaiwu 21-16, 21-18 to emerge victoriously. Championship sponsor, Chief Nnamdi Iroegbu, who doled out cash awards to both the winners and losers at the finals, said the gesture was to encourage Obazu youths to take to sports saying that they can make good money through sports. Chief Iroegbu promised that the 3rd edition of the event would be bigger and better as other sports like Table Tennis may be included.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2020 03:45 UTC