Nigeria’s Under 18 and 20 male handball teams will play their first matches at the IHF International Trophy Continental Phase for Africa holding in Brazzaville, Congo.

The two teams will play a round robin competition in both categories with the National Under 20 boys team led by Coach Fidelis Obi, playing the very first match of the championship against Guinea at 9am while the Coach Emeka Nnamani led under 18 team begin their competition campaign against  Burundi at 11am.

All matches will be played at the Gymnase Nicole OBA ( Nicole Oba Gymnasium) in Brazzaville.

The Nigeria teams qualified for the continental championship after winning both the under 18 and 20 categories of the IHF Challenge Trophy for Africa Zone 3 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast without losing any match and will hope to continue on that momentum force as they aim for the world championship.

Ocheho Hails Aremou As CAHB Marks 50th Anniversary

The president of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) has praised the astute leadership of the president of the Confederation of Africa Handball (CAHB) Dr. Mansourou Aremou as the continental handball governing celebrate fifty years of existence.

Ocheho in a congratulatory message, praised the leadership qualities of Dr. Aremou that has made CAHB a professionally run governing body that the Africa handball family is proud of.

Founded on the 15th of January 1973 after the 2nd All-Africa Games in Lagos, Nigeria,  CAHB has represented the national handball associations of Africa under the supervision of the International Handball Federation (IHF) and has ensured that handball grow leap and bound as evidenced in the ongoing IHF Men World Cup wherein Egypt, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria are doing Africa proud.

The Africa handball governing comprises members of all the Africa National Federations who are affiliate of the International Handball Federations (IHF).