Coach John Uzor has chosen a number of of the gamers that gained the IHF Ladies’s Trophy Zonal Africa Zone 3 Championship in Cote d’Ivoire earlier this yr for the forthcoming African U-18 Ladies’s Handball Championship billed for Oran, Algeria.
These embody Balikiss Mohammed, Chetachi Ngaodurubie and Phebe Oluwalade. Others are Aisha Jamilu, Faizat Balogun, Audu Salamatu, Blessing Igbinidion and Esther Peter.
The Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN), in a press release yesterday, stated that the group have been present process thorough preparatory tenting beneath the tutelage of Coach Uzor and his assistant Bukola Duru on the Rowe Park Sports activities Middle, Yaba, Lagos forward of the championship, which serves as qualifiers for the 2026 Ladies’s Youth World Handball Championship, in addition to the IHF Ladies’s Intercontinental Section.
The championship will maintain from the September 14 to 21, 2025. Nigeria completed third on the final version of the championship in 2023 in Monastir, Tunisia.
In Algeria, Nigeria will play in Group A in opposition to Angola, Tunisia, Kenya, Benin Republic and Madagascar. Group B includes hosts, Algeria, five-time champions and present title holders, Egypt, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Zambia.
Others within the Nigerian group are goalkeepers, Aisha Jamilu (Rima Queens of Sokoto), Okonkwo Sharon, Duru Success (Edo Dynamos), Momodu Pleasure Veronica, Esther Peter, Desola Wasiu and Terfa Cynthia
