Azeemah Wants More For The Sport Of Gymnastics

Azeemah Shehu middle with other young gymnast displaying their medals.

Gold medal winner at the recent African Junior Gymnastics Competition at the High Performance centre  in South Africa and captain of team Nigeria to the event,Azeemah  Shehu says the sport needs better encouragement in the country.

Ten year old Azeemah,who is currently in Primary five at the Regent School in Abuja told amarignis.blogspot.com  that the lsports authorities in Nigeria to  put in place needed facilities to help harness the potentials in youngsters.

Hear her"They should show more passion in Gymnastics,it is a wonderful and exciting sport,if we are really encouraged we can make our country proud.Such facilities will help us train well,in South African it was amazing,they have good facilities and we were happy that we had the chance to use the facilities there"

 

Azeemah and sixteen others who represented the country at the TIGC event in South Africa  were unveiled to the media Saturday in Abuja.