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against the defending champions in a big show Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-: The fifteenth Women's African Nations Championship in Abuja enters the semi final stage on Monday as the host country, Nigeria take on the defending champions, Egypt in a crucial match to decide who makes it the final coming up on Wednesday. The emerging Tunisian team meets the last competition runner up Kenya in the other semifinal. The Nigerian team who gathered all the maximum points in the Group A after winning all their matches qualified to play in the runners up of Group B to determine the finalists. Looking forward to today's match between Nigeria and Egypt, one would agree it is going to be a revenge mission for the North Africans who lost 0-3 to host Nigeria two weeks ago during the 1st edition of the International Gala Championship held at the same venue. After their 3-0 defeat by Nigeria, during the Gala, the Egyptian pro, Toson Tahani blamed the defeat on poor officiating and hot weather, saying "their next meeting at the Nations Cup would be a different ball game. It is in the light of the above boast that one would be looking at today's match between Nigeria and Egypt, as both teams have both integrity and honor. But Coach Terry Hakka of Nigeria says," he has the players like Priscillia Agera, Dorothy Egbum, Esther Dusu, Christy Amadi and Ladi Jalmet to win the match and move to the finals." Also in the second semi final Group B leader and African Olympic representatives, Kenya will take on Group A Runners Up, Tunisia to determine second finalist. The President of Nigeria Volleyball Federation(NVBF), Engineer Habu Ahmed Gumel has praised the participating teams at the 15th African Women Nations Cup Volleyball Championship for their determination to be part of the event. Speaking in Abuja ,Engineer Gumel said that we have as much as 8 teams taking part at the event was an indication that the championship was a huge success, stating "This is very encouraging to the organizers and we shall forever remember the event." "I want to thank the participating teams for taking their time to make it to Nigeria for the event and I know that they have contributed their quotas to the success of the game," Gumel said. According to NVBF boss, the huge turn out of teams will go along way in encouraging others who were absent in Nigeria to strife to attend another event organise by CVAB next time, saying "It is a new down for African Volleyball." Speaking in the same vein CAVB Executive Director, Charles Panou also hailed the standard of play by the teams, stating "It is an indication that Africa is ready to catch up with the rest of the world." Having being surprised at the level of competition especially between countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Morocco. Panou said that heaven would be the limit of the continent when next they go for global competition. News by Boye Ajayi, Nigeria Volleyball Fed. Press Officer |
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