Airline Supports Nigeria Olympics Team

Ethiopian Airlines has wished Nigeria’s team in the Olympics taking place in Japan the best of luck. The airline’s Manager in Abuja Senait Ataklet, recently joined other dignitaries in Abuja to see off the Nigerian Team leaving for Japan; along with the Chairperson of the Nigerian Olympic Committee Ahmed Gumel and the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria. The second batch of Nigerian Athletes departed on July 13th, for Japan aboard Ethiopian Airlines. Ethiopian Airlines is the airline of choice for Team Nigeria for the Tokyo Olympics. Ethiopian Airlines is the only African airline that flies to Japan straight from Africa. According to media reports, the Nigerian Team would be competing in many sports. The Nigerian Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare was quoted as saying “as of today, Nigeria has qualified 61 athletes across nine sports for the Olympics and 22 athletes in four sports for the Para ly mpic Games, which are: Athletics-22, Badminton-3, Basketball-24, Canoe sprint-1, Gymnastic-1, Rowing-1, Taekwondo-1, TableTennis-1, Wrestling-1 which sums up to 61 and for Paralympic Games we have; Para Athletics-5, Para Powerlifting-10, power rowing-1, Para Table Tennis-6 summing up to 22.”